[Noisebridge-discuss] Any interest on 20% SchmartBoard|ez discounts?

[Alex Perez]

Folks,

I went down south to Fremont yesterday to the SchmartBoard  
headquarters, to pick up some of their QFP SchmartBoards, for  
prototyping (see http://schmartboard.com/index.asp?page=products for  
more info, their stuff is awesome) and wound up telling him about  
noisebridge. He offered to set us up with a 20% discount on  
Schmartboards. Essentially they make hand-solderable proto boards for  
most common SMT components, including up to 400-pin BGA chips. I told  
him NoiseBridge would be at Maker Faire, and while he won't have a  
booth there, he said he would be there out of personal interest. I  
can't pimp his boards enough, they absolutely rock. I have used this  
guy a few times to solder some 0.5mm pitch 208-pin ColdFire CPUs for  
proto-work ( http://schmartboard.com/index.asp? 
page=products_qfp&id=116 ) and it makes hand-soldering something this  
complex absolutely a joy. I was actually smiling to myself the whole  
time I used one the first time.

But in classic Reading Rainbow style, don't take my word for it! *MIDI  
keyboard sound effect here* See for yourself:

They have a bunch of demo videos up on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/user/nealgb

I highly recommend watching http://www.youtube.com/watch? 
v=E6WrzdgwyIw , which is 3.5 minutes long.

Cheers,
Alex Perez