21 Jun
2010
21 Jun
'10
2:14 p.m.
On Jun 21, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
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.
Meanwhile, I'll stick to doing human stuff, like arguing passionately on mailing lists
about obsolete technologies.