Re: gEDA-user: Another board with gEDA/PCB

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Darrell Harmon wrote:
> Stephen Meier wrote:
>
> > Let me echo ...hello.....hello....hello...
> >
> > I have had very complex board built with these tools. If the boards 
> > anyone else is trying to build dont work it is probably do to the 
> > manufacturing process of the boards and not due to the design tools. 
> > Hey if you can attach a bga with a toaster more power to you (or the 
> > oven got the bread the right collor of brown). using companies that 
> > are good at depositing 900 pin bgas has been successfull.
> >
> > Steve Meier
> I did successfully attach the BGA using a $20 toaster oven.  I used a 
> MAX6675 thermocouple to SPI converter connected to the parallel port of 
> my laptop along with a relay to switch the power to the oven.  I set the 
> oven on broil and got mostly infrared heating.  I can post the 
> temperature profiles if anyone is interested.

I'd like to see the profile.  Now when you outfit your toaster oven with 
ethernet, then I'll be impressed ;)  Still, thats pretty cool.  I take 
it that you're actually regulating temperature not just monitoring it?

-Dan