[sdiy] Future SYNTH-DIY/breadboard

[Scott Gravenhorst]

This is my BIGGEST gripe about surface mount.  Sure it's great for mass assembly of stuff, but how
does a hobbyist/inventor deal with testing new designs?  Not everything simulates well with ispice.
 All I can think of is to take parts, solder them to little pieces of PCB and use soldered wires to
connect.  I too start everything on breadboard - SBB, into which you can directly plug DIPs.  I do
proof of concept there and then if it works well enough, I can move it to perf.  When DIP is gone,
so am I, for more reasons than just my aging eyes.

Peng <peng3002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>So...is there a breadboard type thing for surface mount parts? 
>Everything I make starts life on the breadboard. Even when I buy 
>PCBs (CGS, EFM,etc.) I breadboard and test/tweak them extensively 
>before stuffing. I hope there's something out there. Anybody? 
> 
>peng
>
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