I've been building a number of small PIC microcontroller based projects just for a hobby.
For my next project I need some external EEPROM storage but it looks like to meet my requirements I need something like this chip.
Unfortunately for me it seems to only be available in a SOT-23 5 pin package which doesn't really suit me as I'm building my circuits on stripboard and don't really have any PCB building facilities at this time.
But I'm thinking as it only has 5 pins how practical would it be for me to solder 5 very fine wires to the pins and then to tracks on my board and then "glue" the chip to the board. Or is there some alternative way I could use it without a PCB? Any advice at all would be welcome. My soldering skills are not that great through lack of practice but they are certainly good enough to build stripboard projects reliably... And these seem cheap enough that if I destoyed one it wouldn't be a disaster... Just wondered how hard this would be?
or are there any alternative products that I might use that would better suit my needs that I've not spotted yet?
For my next project I need some external EEPROM storage but it looks like to meet my requirements I need something like this chip.
Unfortunately for me it seems to only be available in a SOT-23 5 pin package which doesn't really suit me as I'm building my circuits on stripboard and don't really have any PCB building facilities at this time.
But I'm thinking as it only has 5 pins how practical would it be for me to solder 5 very fine wires to the pins and then to tracks on my board and then "glue" the chip to the board. Or is there some alternative way I could use it without a PCB? Any advice at all would be welcome. My soldering skills are not that great through lack of practice but they are certainly good enough to build stripboard projects reliably... And these seem cheap enough that if I destoyed one it wouldn't be a disaster... Just wondered how hard this would be?
or are there any alternative products that I might use that would better suit my needs that I've not spotted yet?