Funny I was thinking the same thing after I was finished. Changing to a 18 pin wouldn't increase the board size, so my cost wouldn't go up. Pretty sure I could fit a 20 pin, I'll have to give it a try. As for a 28 pin that's good idea also, but I don't use anything larger than 20 pin atm, thats more of a AVR/PIC thing.
I always wanted to try AVR programming, but I dont know any C/C++. I do have an Arduino and it's fairly easy to program, but it's not really C. More simplified version. Any way I just might make a 28 pin proto board for the heck of it, I'm sure someone would find a use for it. "If you extend the size up to 20+ pins I would also make that area able to take both 0.3 and 0.6 spacing chips." I'm not sure on how to do that? Do you mean put 2 dip modules side by side? On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:31 +0000, Andy Eskelson wrote: > > A couple of suggestions: > > You are limiting yourself a little by using a DIP16 > There are many chips such as microcontrollers in larger packages. e.g. > the Microchip PIC which is available in 8, 18, 20 28 pin packages and > so > on. > > Obviously a 40 pin package is rather large, and I doubt if you are > thinking along those lines, however you would increase the range of > your > board if you made the chip area able to take larger chips. > I would certainly increase it to 18pin dip, and if the size is not > such a > problem up to 28pin. If you extend the size up to 20+ pins I would > also > make that area able to take both 0.3 and 0.6 spacing chips. > > Andy > > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:23:49 -0800 > rocko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > wow, that first pic is kinda small, can't really see it too well. > > Iv'e attached a larger pic this time. > > > > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 19:06 -0800, rocko wrote: > > > > > > [Attachment(s) from rocko included below] > > > I know the name is kinda lame, but I was up all night > > > finishing my little proto board and decided to give > > > it that name, you know lack of sleep and all. > > > > > > I'm always making little projects with the 4000 series cmos > > > chips, mostly oscillators for mini synth/noise boxes, and needed > > > something a little better than vero/strip board after > breadboarding. > > > > > > the board is only 7.38 sq inches, BatchPCB wanst $18 for one > board. > > > But if I order from Golden Phoenix it's only about $7. which aint > > > too bad. > > > Advanced Circuits charges less than $4 per board, but I gotta > order > > > like 150 of them. > > > Don't really need that many, I suppose i could sell what I don't > > > use, but this isn't that useful of a board, not sure if anyone > else > > > would be interested. > > > > > > Any way I've attached a .png from the 3d viewer. > > > I know it's not much, but it fulfills a need, at least for me. > > > Suggestions as always. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting > your question. > > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the > creator of Kicad. > > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to > contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. > > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit > the kicad-devel group at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > >
