Minimig PCB run - interest thread

[ThomasML]

freqmax wrote:
I have one work-in-progress:
http://www.opencircuits.com/Minimig_Board_v1.0_components

Does anyone know where one can buy the MCU?  I found it at digikey, but minimum order was 84 units.  I was kind of looking for one or two.

Yes, I'm thinking about building the minimig  :-)

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Thomas

[ThomasML]

freqmax wrote:
Belial6:
Well but HOW do you solder it. Because you won't be getting the soldering iron between the chip and the pcb.

You can use an oven to do BGA-soldering at home, here's one starting point:
http://www.instructables.com/id/EBXC76M6V5EP28623C/

(there's a lot more of those, I have one pdf which tells you how to make an oven controlled by a MCU to get the spot-on temperature changes).

freqmax also wrote:
ThomasML:
Check Mouser.com, Maplin.co.uk ..?
Try google aswell. Sometimes it works.
Which country or continent do you live in?

I live in Norway, Europe.   And, I didn't find the 68000-CPU  on mouser either.  The PIC-MCU I don't have any problems finding :-)

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Thomas

[ThomasML]

Belial6 wrote:
Could we use something like this to solve the BGA problem?

http://www.ironwoodelectronics.com/catalog/Process/GHz_BGA_Sockets.html

Sure, but it's extremely expensive and therefore I don't see this going into the minimig project.

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Thomas