On 2 Dec 2010 at 19:54, Tony Duell wrote:
Which normalyl cost more than the chips to put on them
(at least in
the UK).
They're getting cheaper, at least in the import market. Apparently
the Chinese have noticed that there's a market for these things. For
example, the adapters from Futurlec are less than USD$1 Q1:
http://futurlec.com/SMD_Adapters.shtml
Header pins (with machine-pin socket-compatible ends) are getting
similarly cheap.
--Chuck