[sdiy] surprisingly successful surface mount scenario

[Daniel Kruszyna]

I received my first surface mount boards last friday and spent
a few hours soldering everything in. Dealing with the surface
mount parts was a lot easier than I expected. In fact, I'd say
the smaller pitch parts like tqfp and tssop were easier to
solder than the larger soics. I could sweep the soldering iron
across a row of smaller pins in one motion. The soics and soj
package had to be soldered one pin at a time. A pair of good
tweezers and a flux pen were essential. Here is a picture of
one of the two boards I built:

<http://krue.net/cansynth/cansynth-front.jpg>

Also, since I asked about magnification recently, here is what
I finally ended up using:

<http://krue.net/cansynth/lamp.jpg>

-- Daniel