[chbot] SMD experiment #1

[Next Kiwi]

Hi Chris

> You mean the iron on stuff?  I was given some a while ago and used it
> for a quick board, is there someone local who sells it?  I thought it
> was a fairly neat product.
Yes, the iron on stuff. We even make double sided flex with it. We don't use 
an iron though. We got a nice hot plate to work it on. An artwork roller 
works well to press it on nicely.

Jaycar sells it for the ridiculous price of 50 bucks for 5 sheets from 
memory.. Electronics express sell a 100 sheets for 100USD, I think digikey 
may have it too. Note you don't have to put a whole sheet through the 
printer, you can masking tape a smaller bit onto some paper and feed that 
through the printer, saves money ;)


> Very cool.   Urrr, what is it? :-)
I used it to make my balancing bot. The gyro was a BGA which set a new 
challenge for me.

Here is my presentation I did to Massey university, Theres is a 200meg video 
and the docs I presented.
http://www.robonz.com/mobilependulum

see my lame site here LOL
http://www.robonz.com/news/gallery.html
for the small videos.

Cheers
Keith



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Hellyar" <chris at trash.co.nz>
To: "Christchurch Robotics" <chchrobotics at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [chbot] SMD experiment #1


> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 11:28 +1200, Next Kiwi wrote:
>> even used press'n'peel for one BGA board.
>
> You mean the iron on stuff?  I was given some a while ago and used it
> for a quick board, is there someone local who sells it?  I thought it
> was a fairly neat product.
>
>> http://www.pitstock.com/robonz//stuff/bga_press_n_peel.jpg
>> http://www.pitstock.com/robonz//stuff/gyro_done.jpg
>> Only low pin count BGA but I have done higher
>
> Very cool.   Urrr, what is it? :-)