Make SMD to DIP adapters

Recently I had started to experiment with I2C communications, so I bought a bunch of IC's for learning how to use the I2C bus. The ICs were taken directly from Microchip, since they offered a board that has a bunch of stuff on it, however this board is $25, so I figure I could save myself some money if I bought the IC's and just made adapters.

The ICs that the I2C board has are:

24LC02 - 2k EEprom, but I got something totally bigger, 256k EEprom. Later I bought a 512k and a 256k in DIP form

MCP9801 Temp sensor
MCP3221 12 Bit ADC
TC1321 10 bit DAC
MCP23008 I2C expander

I made an adapter for everything but the I2C expander, since it seems rather complex to use (but cool none the less). I also had some Spare MCP9700 Linear Temp sensors in a SC-70 package, but they fit in a SOT package, so I made some adapters for those too

You may notice theres two green bought Adapters for comparison.

Step 1 Supplies

Assuming you have a soldering iron and solder, Heres what you'll need:

• Blank PCB - I got 12 boards from Ebay, forgot how much, but so far Ive only went through 1 or 2
• Headers - I got these from ebay. They are the break away kind so I can just break off what I need.
• steady Hand - since these are SMD parts, they can be quite small
• The Actual SMD parts - I suppose you could make these and sell them
• And Of course, the eagle files.

I got two of the adapters from here, and modified the traces to make them larger
http://my.opera.com/raphman/blog/2007/10/24/smd-to-dip-adapter-board-layouts

A note about the DAC, It needed a on board 2.5v Reference voltage, all other IC's were fine and could fit on an adapter.