[sdiy] Future SYNTH-DIY/breadboard

[R. D. Davis]

Quothe Scott Gravenhorst, from writings of Wed, May 25, 2005 at
10:49:46AM -0700:
> 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

It's not exactly great for that in a way either, that is, for the
purchaser of mass assembled equipment, since it's a pain to
troubleshoot and repair when something goes wrong.  Not to mention
that it also makes equipment a pain to modify.  Surface mount
technology is a bad thing no matter how one looks at it, except for
the large corporations using it to increase their already obese
profit margins.

Also... surface mount is environmentally unfriendly in that it leads
to more throw-away circuitry that people won't want to bother to
repair.

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