Cutting out your own breakout boards

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[Caleb] needed to use some surface mount components when prototyping. Instead of buy a breakout board he made one himself without doing any etching. The process he shows off in the video after the break uses copper tape to layout the traces for the board. It's quite an interesting method which requires a sharp knife and a steady hand. He used regular protoboard as a substrate and applied a … [Read more...]