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 ...

How creative are you when you make your circuit boards? Do you hunt around for different materials to use for the board? As long as it’s an insulator and can handle the heat of a soldering iron ...

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 ...

My introduction to soldering electronics coincided with a rough patch in my marriage due to appliance failure. When my wife and I got married in 2014, in our quest to save money, we purchased a ...

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

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

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 ...