# Breakout board service

**URL:** <https://community.sparkfun.com/t/breakout-board-service/1621>\
**Category:** New Product Ideas\
**Created:** [March 28, 2006, 9:53am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/breakout-board-service/1621 "2006-03-28T09:53:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dak246](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6f9a4e/32.png) [@dak246](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/dak246)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 9:53am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/breakout-board-service/1621/1 "2006-03-28T09:53:46Z")

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In my opinion the best thing about sparkfun is the selection of smd and other hobbyist unfriendly components that are attached to breakout boards. But I think a great idea would be to offer the option to have ANY smd component or other “impossible for the typical hobbyist to deal with” component pre-attached to a breakout board for an extra fee. As far as I know this doesn’t exist anywhere and I think it would attract a lot of people like me who just don’t want to deal with the extra complication. I think this is especially important considering how new technology keeps getting smaller and smaller.

I think another great idea would to offer connectors for those very tiny little ribbon cables that are on cell phone lcds, camera modules etc.

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**Author:** ![wittend](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/sparkfun/user_avatar/community.sparkfun.com/wittend/32/1651_2.png) [@wittend](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/wittend)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/breakout-board-service/1621/2 "2006-03-29T04:10:03Z")

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> dak246:  
> In my opinion the best thing about sparkfun is the selection of smd and other hobbyist unfriendly components that are attached to breakout boards. But I think a great idea would be to offer the option to have ANY smd component or other “impossible for the typical hobbyist to deal with” component pre-attached to a breakout board for an extra fee. As far as I know this doesn’t exist anywhere and I think it would attract a lot of people like me who just don’t want to deal with the extra complication. I think this is especially important considering how new technology keeps getting smaller and smaller.
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> I think another great idea would to offer connectors for those very tiny little ribbon cables that are on cell phone lcds, camera modules etc.

I agree - especially about the connectors. I know that there is an infinite number of variations out there, but just a good selection of one and two row connectors for stuff smaller than 0.1" - the next two sizes down - are they 0.65mm and 0.5mm?