Hi, I agree with Arduino's guys, SMD is the way to go. Even for hobbyists.
SMD are way, way, way cheaper than DIP components (1000 resistors costs few $ for instance). I didn't want to listen to this, until I finally decided to try surface soldering. So, SMD are limited budget friendly. I can remember you talked about Pinguino (btw there's an article about it in Servo magazine) being popular because it can be home-made in your garage. SMD can also be done in your garage, nowdays. PCB designed for SMD can't be manufactured in your garage, using a toner tranfert method for instance. But with offers like the ones from Seeedstudio, where they can produce PCBs at very, very low prices, in the end, one PCB from a pro manufacturer costs less than the one you could do, is better and more reliable, reproductible, etc... I believe less and less in DIY for these specific tasks, particularly when there are more and more interesting offers and when costs can be shared (that's my goal with batch orders). I've ordered few PICs recently, SMD. Some 18f14K50, SSOP package, 18f25K22 and 18f27J53, SOIC package. SSOP (like FTDI chips), are indeed small and quite hard to solder. But SOIC are, IMHO, perfectly solderable by a hobbyst (and I'll let you know how I did this, I hope it'll be ok :)). Richard also advised to use 1206 or 1210 components. I have plan to design some very small boards, including a Xbee socket, very communicative modules (Jaluino Bee), something like Jaluino Cell but including xbee and probably some shield connector (either shield or breadboard-able). So, no difficulties IMO Cheers, Seb PS: you should have posted a link to Cuckoo in your comments 8^) 2011/1/8 funlw65(Vasi) <[email protected]> > Sorry, this is the link > http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/01/08/arduino-uno-smd/ > > On Jan 8, 7:49 pm, "funlw65(Vasi)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > "This board is just like the current generation of Unos, but it > > features a surface-mounted version of the Atmega328 processor. The > > design of this board was prompted by a shortage of the Atmega328 in > > the through-hole DIP format that we normally use." > > > > See it here: > http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/01/08/arduino-uno-smd/comment-page-1/#com... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jallib" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<jallib%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en. > > -- Sébastien Lelong http://www.sirloon.net http://sirbot.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en.
