Has anyone used these...
https://protostack.com.au/shop/b...
It looks to be a neat way to work up an AVR prototype.
Brian Fairchild
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avrcandies
Seems "OK," nowadays interest would be less, since many chips are not avail in DIP. Would be MUCH nicer if the board included a serial converter section and maybe a couple of LEDS ready to jumper in and use. Otherwise the board doesn't offer too much (maybe the best is a nice area for the xtal---much better that the plugin protoboards). However if this save you an hour or two, that's worth at least $8 
allano
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Yes, they are high quality and well configured to interface with external devices. I have used the uController board for the ATmega328, ATtiny84 and 681ATtiny for about five years now and have no problems with them.
His other boards at https://protostack.com.au/produc... are also great boards for one-off projects.
Alan
Last Edited: Fri. Aug 5, 2022 - 01:33 PM
Brian Fairchild
allano wrote:
Yes, they are high quality and well configured to interface with external devices. I have used the uController board for the ATmega328, ATtiny84 and 681ATtiny for about five years now and have no problems with them.
That's good to know. I've bough a few of the 28-pin boards and some medium sized prototype board.
westfw
Cute regulator layout!
gregd99
This must be a challenging market place when you can buy 5 x pcb of your design from jlc for a few $s plus shipping.
Last Edited: Sat. Aug 6, 2022 - 12:07 AM
grohote
No Double Sided board, nothing to me.
Last Edited: Sat. Aug 6, 2022 - 03:55 PM
Jeckson
gregd99 wrote:
Protype first then JLPCB.
This must be a challenging market place when you can buy 5 x pcb of your design from jlc for a few $s plus shipping.
Brian Fairchild
grohote wrote:
No DS, nothing to me.
I don't understand.
grohote
Sorry, Brian.
I used such boards in my projects, a couple of years only, then switched to Double Side, through-connected, they are confident, they are a law.
avrcandies
The original mentioned AVR board is double sided, plated holes.
Yes, the 2nd perfboard isn't as solid, lacking the plated holes (they don't seem present)---but it's still quite a nice build.
Brian Fairchild
The current prototype boards on the website are double sided.
I should have mine by the end of the week and will post a report.
Jeckson
Brian Fairchild wrote:
I should have mine by the end of the week and will post a report.
This is very popular for prototypes
Madscientist99
DIP is very 90s 
barnacle
Madscientist99 wrote:
DIP is very 90s
Well, maybe, but until someone comes up with an affordable non-volatile memory with both SPI and parallel interfaces, if you need a part programmed off-board you have few options.
I'm currently working on a design which requires six eight-bit parallel roms of some flavour; an external DIP socket is an excellent solution. External ZIF sockets for SM parts exist, but you still really need to solder those parts to the target board after programming.
Neil
(Honeywell do one, actually, but it's a few hundred dollars per chip. That's not a solution unless you're in the space industry.)
Jeckson
barnacle wrote:
Well, maybe, but until someone comes up with an affordable non-volatile memory with both SPI and parallel interfaces, if you need a part programmed off-board you have few options.
I'm currently working on a design which requires six eight-bit parallel roms of some flavour; an external DIP socket is an excellent solution. External ZIF sockets for SM parts exist, but you still really need to solder those parts to the target board after programming.
Here,the PDIP are cheaper than SMD.
I'm now slightly to SMD cause the weight and size for board.