This is a breakout board for low pin count SMD components : 0402 0603 0805 1206 SOT23 SOT223 SOT323.
Before that when you wanted to breadboard some SMD components it was a bit tricky :
Now you can use those tiny pretty easy to solder adapters :
See some sample usages
This breakout board is usefull to prototype with SMD components by allowing to plug those in a breadboard - or any matching 0.1" spaced pins, like some arduino family boards for instance.
It is derived from the Awesome PCB project by Simon.
My motivation for redesigning it from scratch was to :
- Learn Kicad.
- Allow people to order those boards for themselves, as Simon did not "yet" release his files.
- I need to use some of those.
Not much yet, some pictures in the Doc subfolder. You can probably use some informations in the pdf from awesomepcb although that board is somewhat different.
Status : still untested.
- Trying to let PCBs.io manufacturing process actually produce vias by not burying them under a pad.
- Beefier traces, especially on center pin - thanks to original Awsome PCB designer Simon for the suggestion on hackaday.io.
- Beefier vias for better current/heat transfer.
- Linked pad 2 and 4 of SOT223 for footprint compatible packages which lack the middle pin.
- Added silkscreen annotations of pads to pins id matching - thanks to warhawk-avg on hackaday.io for the suggestion.
Status : tested and working but might be bugged depending on PCB manufacturer, vias between top and bottom heatsink surface may not be produced.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License - aka CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
I chose non commercial because the idea is not mine and I don't want someone ripping off sales from the original publisher.