The basic metallurgy of solder. How to make a solder joint. How to repair a circuit board. The vintageTEK museum is a geek’s paradise to tour if visiting the Portland, Oregon area. The museum ...

This project is built around a small, simple printed circuit board that uses several 0.1″ female headers to connect an Arduino and motor drivers. Soldering them by hand is simply boring ...

There are plenty of ways to make printed circuit boards at home but for ... people can build things such as a four-layer board at home. Adding a solder mask might be one of those features for ...

No user-serviceable parts inside? Give me a break! The head unit is tough to get to, but the PCBs within the chassis use ...

My introduction to soldering electronics coincided with a rough patch in my marriage due to appliance failure. When my wife ...

It is generally agreed that, on average, 40% to 60% of the defects generated by a surface mount production line can ...

The following section presents common types of surface residues on PCBAs, analyses their possible causes, and suggests ...

All SMT variants of the Aluminium Electrolyte and Aluminium Hybrid Polymer capacitors from Würth Elektronik are now offered in an extremely vibration-resistant version on request. Thanks to their ...