On Jun 21, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Dave McGuire 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 =3D=3D=
HARD", which is complete and utter bullshit.
Not everybody has access to a teacher as patient and as learned as you. =
FWIW I never had a teacher. I just grabbed the soldering iron and put the
chip on the PCB. No problem...
For most of us, we've only had to learn by trying
it and failing a lot =
of the time, and we've found that SMT is hard. If nothing else, the =
I still wonder how mcuh of this is 'we know SMD is hard so we're not
going to be able to do it, so it's hard' :-)
-tony