[sdiy] Trip to the Local Electronics Shop and Things SMD

[Scott Gravenhorst]

I was at ITC (Chatsworth, CA) today looking for prototyping board for my
PCSYNTH project.  Oddly enough, I found a full size 16 bit ISA slot
prototype board - for $68.00....  Uh, no.  So I bought a piece of regular
etched stuff made by Velleman for $6.95 and I'll do my original idea of
using a defunct EIDE card for it's edge connector.

But I also spotted an SMD prototyping board.  I have very little details
because frankly I have no interest in SMD (being visually impaired, it's
hard enough to do through hole), however I shall describe what I saw:  A
strip of board with etched patterns for several, (5 or 6) SMD devices, it
looked like there were different patterns and numbers of pins, each pin has
an etched land out to a solder pad/hole.  I didn't look at the price, nor
can I give a manufacturer, I just didn't think to look at all that until I
was half way home and it was already too late.  But it looks like this
stuff exists for you people with SuperMan's eyeballs.

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