On 01/14/2016 08:49 AM, Don Y wrote:
"Circuit Cellar" became a manual for how to ASSEMBLE things many years ago.
It's the nature of the beast; you can't really write much where you
expect your readers to have lots of resources at their disposal!
"Using your scanning electron microscope, locate the gate region
of the FET controlling the output stage. Now, engage the laser
to vaporize the connection from this to the output pin. Then..."
Heck, I suspect many of its readers can't use a soldering iron -- esp
on SMT devices!

It's a nostalgia thing for me. Back in the days of Byte Ciarcia's column
was my favorite. I don't know how well I would do with SMT. You have to
see it to solder it. I was happier back when processors had 40 pins on a
..100 grid that I could wire wrap on the kitchen table. Or even whip up a
circuit board that wasn't 10 layers with more vias than Rome.