You provide standard surface-mount soldering tools: a soldering iron, solder (wire or paste), small metal tweezers, as well as a Phillips head screwdriver.

To build the 555SE, basic electronic soldering skill and tools are required, but no additional knowledge of electronics is presumed or required. The kit also comes complete with the 'IC Leg' stand, and 8 color coded thumbscrew terminal posts. It includes the circuit board, resistors, and transistors that make up the electrical circuit as well as printed assembly instructions. The 555SE is an easy-to-build surface-mount soldering kit.

If you're familiar with our larger DIP-IC styled Three Fives kit, you'll find the 555SE to be smaller and built to the same scale, with half the lead pitch, and all surface-mount components. It comes complete with a beautiful aluminum display stand that gives the circuit board eight legs in the shape of SOIC-packaged integrated circuit pins. The kit is lovingly designed to resemble an (overgrown) integrated circuit, based around a black circuit board with clear solder mask so that you can see the wiring traces between the components. The 555SE kit was designed by Eric Schlaepfer, working in collaboration with Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. This particular kit is called the '555SE' because it is the Surface-mount Edition, SOIC Edition, SMD Edition, and Small Edition of the 555 soldering kit. However, while the Three Fives kit is a traditional through-hole soldering kit styled like a 'DIP' packaged (through-hole) integrated circuit, the 555SE is a surface mount soldering kit, styled to look like a smaller 'SOIC' packaged (surface mount) integrated circuit. Like its larger sibling the ' Three Fives' soldering kit, the 555SE is an easy soldering kit that results in a working 555 timer, styled like an integrated circuit. The '555SE' Discrete 555 timer is a surface-mount soldering kit that lets you build a faithful and functional transistor-scale replica of the NE555 timer integrated circuit, one of the most classic, popular, and all-around useful chips of all time. Surface mount soldering kit: Re-create one of the most classic, popular, and all-around useful chips of all time.

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