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#493 – PITA Package
- There was a large electrical fire where Chris lives in Chicago.
- Chris is launching a new course for Contextual Electronics making a board with Bluetooth and cellular.
- This lead to Quectel sending him a development board for the EG91
- DB9 is still alive! It was paired with a RS-232 chip on the dev board Chris got
- Dave is doing a 5 part series about programming the 3 cent micro
- The first one is about making the programmer
- Dave wants to call out the “$0.01 linear regulator”, the SSP6206
- The cheapest regulator on Digikey is the NCP115, but it has a PITA package to solder (1mm x 1mm!)
- Carl Bugeja calls out a haptic driver (meant for the buzzer on your cell phone) that can be used as a small motor driver.
- Chris has been dealing with smaller pitch parts using his new microscope. This model was recommended in a recent Voltlog video about microscopes.
- XC6206 is another low cost linear regulator.
- CE forum post about microscope recommendations
- HEPA fume extractor video
- Alvaro explains his part setup at home
- Review of a $100 handheld scope
- Dave has also done a cheap handheld scope review
- Flux removers
- Working with magnet wire
- Ripping caps off of a board
- “Are we the baddies?”
- KiKit panelization tool in KiCad
- Limor from Adafruit panelizing boards in EAGLE
- Knocking parts off of a board with a chisel (eWaste Ben)
Thanks to Mark Ittleman for the image of the pita on a conveyor