Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 24/01/2025 19:13, rbowman wrote:

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.
 

Buy a magnifying headset. Or some real close up glasses

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.
 

Agreed. You need seriously small solder tips and magnifiers to go smaller
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