Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:52:03 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   SMD is now sometimes the only way to get chips - and that means
   careful 'oven' work. Super-pain. Basically PCB development is moving
   out of the realm of human makers, everything's too tiny.

I was asleep at the switch and bought a couple of Pico without the
headers. I have the headers but the soldering task showed the limits of my
vision and manual dexterity these days.

I've never done anything with surface mount other than look at them. 0.1"
grids are as much as I want to deal with.