Today's mail bestowed upon me a precious Maxim part (you may well gasp), a DS1077 to be particular. A programmable oscillator for use on an I2C bus. I'm hoping to use this chip in a new PCB design I'm working on and so I wanted to get some results before Monday. Hmm, that means there's no time to order a breakout board (lack of foresight while I was purchasing said IC). Dang,what is one to do?
Then I remembered :)
Bodge(TM)*
In a hurry to complete a project?Too impatient to wait for the postman?
Too much of a tight-wad to buy a proper solution?
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Then why not try a Bodge?
Yes, Bodge is a quick and cheap alternative to doing things properly! Eager to risk frying a relatively difficult to obtain Maxim part by hamfistedly prodding away at it for half an hour with pliers, tin snips and a cheap soldering iron? Then Bodge is for you!!
No more pacing up and down the workshop waiting for a properly designed and manufactured breakout board to arrive, which would no doubt have cost almost as much as the chip itself!!! No, just dive in and solder on a bunch of random wires to it and just assume everything will go according to plan!!!!
A Bodge representative is in your area now!!!!!
Hey, take a look at this demonstration!!!!!!
*Terms and conditions apply. Bodge should not be used in automotive, industrial, life-support, aerospace, military or marine applications. Bodge should not be used by the elderly, the infirm or the pregnant. Bodge is probably not really a trademark as far as I know. It would be awesome if it was though. Availability: dwindling. My hovercraft is full of eels.