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[wearable]

I keep finding 48-pin TQFP and/or QFN parts that I'd like to experiment with, but it's very difficult to find adapters for these. The SOIC and SSOP adapters are great, how about adding some TQFP and QFN to DIP adapters?

-- Doug

[Norman]

I've had the same problem. I've found folks selling breakout broards for common SMT sizes, e.g. http://www.beldynsys.com/ , but I generally wanted several in one size, which this didn't seem to address very economicly.

[murphyr]

Spark Fun offers a PCB service. Draw up what you need and get it manufactured. 5 bucks a square inch will beat the pants off of the price of a commercial product.

Pick up one of the demo versions of a EDA software and give it a go. Might take a few hours to get going, but it will be time well spent.

[wearable]

Spark Fun offers a PCB service. Draw up what you need and get it manufactured. 5 bucks a square inch will beat the pants off of the price of a commercial product.

Well there is schmart board adapters that are $5 each
http://www.schmartboard.com/index.asp?page=products_sm

But they are 2x2 inches, a bit large ...

So I might try the sparkfun PCB order, and it would be good practice because eventually I want to make a custom board. I'm wondering if the custom boards can be ordered in different thicknesses, would be nice to have thin ones like their SOIC/SSOP adapters.

I'm thinking about getting the sunkko 850 combo unit with soldering iron and hot air rework capability. Seems pretty nice for the price, and soldering those SMT parts would be much easier. I wonder though if the Aoyue 857A would be better for reflow soldering since it has digital controls. Has anyone tried both? These are both in the sparkfun store.