Hand-drawn-made SOIC-8 PCB Adapter
Hi!
I'm preparing some SOIC-8 adapters so I can play around with some ICs which are locally available only in SOIC packages.
In this case this is LM358 dual op-amps (http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm158-n.pdf) which I will use as an amplifier circuit for an red LED which will act as a very fast photodetector. (I have two red semiconductor lasers)
I know that it looks horrible, but my laser printer is broken, so I had to use an "waterproof" sharpie to draw the adapter. Also it happened that the ink was dissapearing during etching process, so I had to take it out and redraw the layout. I used also too much flux, the chip was soldered by hand as I don't have SMD rework station yet.
Adapter is working and will be used soon. (I will post photos as well)
nice work there. thanks for sharing PCB Technology : Flexible PCB