Had to reflash an SOIC i2c chip before and just soldered wires on. Some pins are easier where you have a via to solder to instead of the pin. Had to carefully lift the VCC pin to avoid turning on the whole board. Not all is lost if you break a pin: can carefully file down a bit of the plastic chip encapsulation to expose some pin to rebridge it once complete.
It's really nice to see how much cheaper ZIF sockets, test clips and programmers have gotten over the last few decades.
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Test clip? Fancy!
Had to reflash an SOIC i2c chip before and just soldered wires on. Some pins are easier where you have a via to solder to instead of the pin. Had to carefully lift the VCC pin to avoid turning on the whole board. Not all is lost if you break a pin: can carefully file down a bit of the plastic chip encapsulation to expose some pin to rebridge it once complete.
It's really nice to see how much cheaper ZIF sockets, test clips and programmers have gotten over the last few decades.