UPS brought my boards yesterday!
I think I'm starting to really enjoy working with surface mount devices...
There's a certain pleasure in being able to put 63 parts (only 61 loaded in this photo), plus room for connections to the outside world (LCD display, sensors, power, etc) on only 4.5 square inches (29 sq cm) of real estate.

I loaded it up and ran it through the oven last night. Dunno if it WORKS yet, but it *looks* OK so far.



Here's a close up of the solder job. It's hard to resist the temptation to put too much solder on the pads. Just the tiniest bit is plenty. These look pretty good.



Big fun!

steve