7 Dec
2009
7 Dec
'09
9:22 p.m.
On 7 Dec 2009 at 17:59, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
I've done a single sided board using atmega
128 and soldered it
myself.
It is easy if you learn how to do.
I do it myself. But it's not something the average hobbyist with
perhaps a month's worth of knowing which end of a soldering iron is
hot is likely to pull off successfully.
PTH PCBs tend to be more expensive than SMT-oriented ones, but any
idiot can assemble one of those. Decades of Heathkits have
demonstrated that.
Noooooo :( Keep the work with AVR! :D
Have you looked at the latest NXP Cortex offerings? 50MHz 32-bit ARM
and very inexpensive ($1). At least that's what NXP says.
http://www.nxp.com/news/content/file_1642.html
--Chuck