{"id":5856,"date":"2015-02-02T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:10:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:10:55","slug":"cool-tools-elecfreaks-smd-prototyping-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/cool-tools-elecfreaks-smd-prototyping-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Tools: Elecfreaks SMD Prototyping Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"elecfreaks_smd_proto\"<\/a>These SMD prototyping shields<\/a> from Elecfreaks are pretty useful for building and testing discrete circuits made with mostly 2 and 3-terminal surface mount devices. I’ve used them quite a bit over the past year to prototype power supply and switching circuits (mostly SOT-23s). I like to cut them into small pieces with a large metal shear and stick them to larger PCBs (the ones I’m testing\/modifying) with thick double-stick foam tape.<\/p>\n

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These SMD prototyping shields from Elecfreaks are pretty useful for building and testing discrete circuits made with mostly 2 and 3-terminal surface mount devices. I’ve used them quite a bit over the past year to prototype power supply and switching circuits (mostly SOT-23s). I like to cut them into small pieces with a large metal … Continue reading Cool Tools: Elecfreaks SMD Prototyping Shield<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,5],"tags":[63,485,494,490,138,486],"class_list":["post-5856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-and-resources","category-electronics","tag-arduino","tag-cool-tools","tag-elecfreaks","tag-prototyping","tag-shield","tag-smd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/elecfreaks_smd_proto.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-1ws","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5788,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/cool-tools-dealextreme-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":5856,"position":0},"title":"Cool Tools: DealExtreme Edition","author":"Jeff","date":"January 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Dealextreme\u00a0is home to a few good buys on electronics prototyping supplies. 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