How do you pick-and-place them?
Steady hands!
btw the trickiest part was placing the bitfury chip ... on one of the boards it is off by half a pin length. Luckily it was shifted along the power pins, so all data ones were good.
Damn, I always wanted the excuse to make one of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkYNBFXlJYQ
http://vpapanik.blogspot.gr/2012/11/low-budget-manual-pick-place.html
I guess I'll have to get few full kits with ASICs just for the fun of assembling them.
Yeah, I've looked at something like that .. So far I haven't found anything that beats steady hands and good tweezers though.
I mean - down to 0603 everything is big enough for handling it that way. 0402 is probably as tiny as I'd ever do by hand (and given an option - read that as "never").