[OpenTRV-dev] Fwd: Do you think that it would be worth doing a bunch of breakout-board designs (and fabs)...?

[Damon Hart-Davis]

One I think that got lost in earlier chatter (or at least that I missed the answer to)...

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> From: Damon Hart-Davis
> Date: 13 March 2013 18:16:56 GMT
> Subject: Do you think that it would be worth doing a bunch of breakout-board designs (and fabs)...?
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> ...for components that we are using or might want to use and that are hard to breadboard otherwise.
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> Could be in OpenTRV or another project, and would be a library of generic ones there for people to use as they wish.
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> Things like the RFM22 which is a nightmare for me to connect up each time, but some of the other SMD packages as well.
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> I could take a run of them for the RFM22/23 plus some of those RTCs and digital thermometers and so on that I even already have but cannot use yet!
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> I might manage to hand solder individual SMD components onto such a breakout board, or I could even farm that out for generic package footprints...
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> (Note: I am suggest one device or a small number of devices per board, with the ability to wire flying leads or a 0.1" header strip to plug into a breadboard or for a "shield", and the boards being 'dumb' just expanding out the pins the the larger pitch.)
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> Rgds
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> Damon
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