The Ardweeny: the little friend of the Arduino (and how to beef it up)

Step 8 Prepare the chip to receive the backpack

We normally wedge the regular PCB backpack onto the chip and start soldering, but as we're using the beefy socket-pin strips, we have some additional preparation to do.

Using your pliers, bend each pair of legs in flat against the IC. This will make it fit the spacing between the new legs much easier.