Have seen these chips on here and am ondering where they can be purchased in the UK? spesificaly the qt110 8-dip version. Here comes totaly stealthed CD heaven. -->p.s. not sure if i have psoed this in the rigth place
http://www.futurlec.com/ICSFOthers.shtml They ship to UK at the same price as to US apparenty. I've not tried ordering from them yet though.
Digikey accepts Solo and stocks the QProx chips. However, Digikey does have a minimum order requirement, so make up excuses to get other stuff if you were only after the QT110.
You could always get a PLCC version and get a PLCC socket if it comes down to it. Though DIP is easier to work with than small PLCC chips.
PCB adaptors for SO devices are very easy to solder too, i found the rapid ones to be of a nice quality: http://www.rapidelectronics.co.uk/r...CAT_CODE=30340&STK_PROD_CODE=M61669&XPAGENO=2 Or you could get urself a worthwhile debit card