Today I made my first SMD soldering. This is where I started:
FT232RL and SSOP28 adapter
And this is what I ended up with:
Done!
Looks pretty good to me. I haven’t tested the chip in action yet so I can’t tell if it survived the process. Following Sparkfun’s SMD HowTo (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorial_info.php?tutorials_id=36) it took me about 30-45 mins from start to finish. I think I bridged every pin on the chip but solder wick really does miracles! If this thing works I have to say it wasn’t that hard.
Update Nov 4, 2010:
It works like a dream, well almost. I had some issues with Picaxe 28x2 and data transfer from FT232R to 28x2 didn’t work. It worked just fine to the other direction. I had problems with Picaxe 08M too but got it working after I started using pin 3 instead of pin 1 for serin command. I didn’t read the manual very carefully for serxxx commands so it might just be a RTFM thing. With ATTiny2313 it works like a dream even at 250k baud.
Not much to say about it so I’ll just post some pictures of finished USB Serial thingy. (Could do a new “Something else” but I’m feeling kinda lazy)
Testing with 08M, ProgEdit and Putty
Finished USB serial thingy
Finished USB serial thingy, another angle
Finished USB serial thingy, bottom side
Finished USB serial thingy doing its thing with ATTiny2313
ASCII characters 1-8 going to ATTiny and coming back at 250k baud speed.
That’s about it.