10 Jul
2015
10 Jul
'15
7:06 p.m.
Thanks for the note Jake. I feel like my solder tip at home is going to be
too big for this, but thanks for the vote of confidence. I was thinking
about just getting a smt board from Adafruit and going from there instead
of all this crazy stencil stuff. Seems like a lot of work for just one or
two boards.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
you can solder parts like that with an ordinary
soldering iron, i can show
you how. It's not hard. Do you have a PC board made yet?
I'm assuming you have two or three chips per board. If you have like a
dozen chips per board you might prefer to do it with stencils, which you
can cut from transparent folder covers (thesis binder cover) with a laser
cutter. Then once you have the solder paste in place, you put the chips on
with tweezers and rest the board on a hotplate for 60 seconds.
the other option is to dispense the solder paste with a 3d printer, like
this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgXtRDVvhdU
-jake
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Cere Misc wrote:
So there's this chip that I just gotta have for a project I am working
> on. The only problem is that it seems like EVERYTHING in IC form now it
> packaged in these
> teensy little surface mount chips. I don't have a small enough soldering
> iron and I'd rather not hassle with trying to make it work with my shitty
> equipment.
> Wondering if sudo or Noisebridge is set up for a solder reflow oven with
> an accurate temperature control? Also, I am not totally clear about how I
> create a
> silkscreen soldering setup for a given PCB design. Does anyone on this
> list have a lot of experience with this?
>
> Thanks,
> Cere
>
>