21 Jun
2010
21 Jun
'10
2:33 p.m.
On 6/21/10 5:14 PM, A. Christoff Baumann wrote:
I have no problem with that at all. If they DON'T WANT to, that's
fine. What I have a problem with is the knee-jerk reaction of "SMT ==
HARD", which is complete and utter bullshit.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Right now
I'm sitting here (well, taking a
break from it at the moment, actually) soldering sixteen boards with
0.5mm-pitch parts for another open-hardware project, and am having no
trouble whatsoever.
And that's what I think you fail to understand. A lot of people build one-two
projects a year, and rarely encounter SMD components in those projects. They don't
have the skills, and quite honestly, I don't blame them for not wanting to "learn
it." The whole idea behind SMD was to make life easier for robots. Let them do what
they do best.