Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires

Re:Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires by wglb on Thursday May 28, 2009 @10:04AM (#630211)

Quite cool.

Actually surface mount is not all that bad. I have some friends who use it on boards at home for fun.

And I would be surprised if there weren't vendors or other activity using surface mount at the Faire.

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Re:Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires by bisceglie on Thursday May 28, 2009 @11:38AM (#630376)

i'm working with surface mount components for a project. def. not as bad as the article makes it out to be. just takes a steady hand, a decent soldering station (i've got a weller WES51, around $80), small tips, lots of flux, and a magnifying glass. getting the first component down took a while, but improvement (fast and clean connections) came quickly. now it's kind of fun.

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Re:Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires by rbanffy on Friday May 29, 2009 @10:05AM (#632063)

If I had a hand that steady I would be a brain surgeon...

Better:

If I had a hand that steady I would still be a brain surgeon...

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