Every company that designs a product involving electronics must first create a functional prototype. This requires hand-soldering components onto printed circuit boards. This was not an issue until the advent of today's surface mount components. With Prototyping Board / ez most anyone can now hand-solder the smallest components on the market. This resolves a major issue for industry, education and hobbyists. Hard numbers have not been found as this market is very horizontal. Any product that has an electronic component must be prototyped before production can occur. In addition every university that teaches or researches electronic engineering has issues with surface mount components. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of hobbyists.. It takes a sharp eye and a very steady hand to solder tiny chips onto printed circuit boards, and it's a rare hardware engineer who can do it well. Prototyping Board literally inverts the model so that hardware engineers can quickly build and test designs. The company's modular component system will allow new hardware designs to get to market more quickly and at lower development costs. ProtoBOARD|ez is our solution for hand soldering surface-mount components. After some extensive R&D we found that two skills are needed to hand-solder surface mount components. First the ability to place the chip on the solder pads and keep it in place to solder, and second the ability to solder such small areas without creating short circuits on the chip legs. ProtoBOARD|ez resolves both issues so that virtually anyone can now use surface mount components, even a 10 year old. | |










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