{"id":8959,"date":"2006-05-25T14:34:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T14:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8959"},"modified":"2006-05-25T14:34:06","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T14:34:06","slug":"soldering-teeny-weenie-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8959","title":{"rendered":"Soldering Teeny-Weenie Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/tinyChip.jpg\">You may have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/ex\/i\/EA37A62A5FDF1028A786001143E7E506\/\" target=\"new\">some<\/a> of the how-tos online for using a toaster oven to bake-solder components on PCBs that use the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BGA\" target=\"new\">BGA<\/a> (Ball Grid Array) arrangement. But what do you do if you want to solder a fingernail-size chip onto a board and it&#8217;s not BGA? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/ex\/i\/0E9564B43CE71029AC23001143E7E506\/?ALLSTEPS\" target=\"new\">This Instructable<\/a> shows you how. It&#8217;s definitely the kind of work that&#8217;ll grow hairs on your chest and your alpha geek cred will be uncontestable if you can do it. I wish I had the stones (and the soldering chops) to pull it off as I have a dead modem on a Series 1 TiVo I&#8217;d love to replace, but the components are just too damn tiny (and I don&#8217;t have the required microscope either).<\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\" target=\"new\">Make<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen some of the how-tos online for using a toaster oven to bake-solder components on PCBs that use the BGA (Ball Grid Array) arrangement. But what do you do if you want to solder a fingernail-size chip onto a board and it&#8217;s not BGA? This Instructable shows you how. It&#8217;s definitely the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8959\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soldering Teeny-Weenie Chips&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}