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

[Mike Stirling]

Such things already exist for standard packages.  Might be worth it for 
small subsystems for though.

On 17/03/13 17:34, Damon Hart-Davis wrote:
> 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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