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This instructable is written to teach you how to use a neat and tidy method of prototyping with SMT microcontrollers (or other devices) on an adaptor ...
The first step is to solder your device onto the adaptor board as can be seen in picture below. I find that the best way to solder these fine (ish) pi...
First you need to cut a ~20mm x ~20mm piece of copper tape and stick it to the centre of the underside of the adaptor board. Next you need to poke the...
Once you have formed the solid core wire over the copper tape you need to then carefully solder the wire to the tape. This is best done quickly and wi...
The next step is to deal with the positive connections. First you need to insulate the existing copper tape 'ground plane' with some tape. I used Sell...
Once you are happy that the ground plane is well insulated you should stick the second piece of copper tape onto it as shown in the images below. Make...
Next you need to take some more single cored wire and solder one end to the positive side of the decoupling capacitor and the other should be formed s...
Now you need to solder these positive connections. Again, make sure you make a neat job of the soldering and don't use too much solder. If you look cl...
Next you need to take some red and black wires and solder the black one to the ground connection on the top side of the adaptor board and the red one ...
Next you need to use a DMM (Digital Multi Meter) to make sure you have not shorted the ground connections to the positive connections. If they are sho...
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