Soldering processors - is there an easy way?

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I think soldering a processor to a PCB board is next to impossible for me...you have many small pins very close together, etc...

are there processors that exist that are thru-hole, or that have their packages such that the pins are spread apart a bit more to make it easy to solder them to a PCB board?

Overall, is there a way to get around this difficulty? Let's say you want to get a processor and play around with it, program it, build a small microcontroller together, tinker around, etc.. How would you get around this difficulty? How would you connect your processor to ur memory and I/O devices?
 
Pic have dip chips so dose AVR Texas and some more. They also make brakeout boards that make soldering easy

If you have a good iron with chisel tip it's Not that hard to solder 80 pin and less chips

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/495
**broken link removed**
 
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Using a breakpit board from such companies as www.proto-advantage.com is a great way. They will even procure Digikey Part numbers and solder that part to the adapter. I'm having some made now.

The solder mask is an integral part to doing soldering by hand. Surface tension and flux make it difficult to make bridges. Too much solder is your enemy.

In general, you assume that parts will be damaged on removal. There are lots of techniques. See You Tube
 

You need to be more explicit about your requirements, there are loads of devices that are thru-hole - but it really depends what you want?.
 
Nice example by me:


available in 720p on youtube
 
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Cool, Very informative and to the point. Never saw this done before. I might even try it.

Weird, it did not post below the AtomSoft post it was for.
 
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