Soldering to a PC board can be tricky: Too much heat can make the copper trace lift right off the board substrate. Use a soldering pencil rated at 15-25 watts, no more. (Watch the video; story ...
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 has ...
A single development board that supports many of Texas InstrumentsInc.'s microcontroller devices has been developed by SchmartBoard Inc.(San Ramon, Calif.). Normally different MCU families require ...
GAINESVILLE, GA ― October 2025 ― Count On Tools, Inc. (COT), a leading provider of precision components and SMT spare parts, has expanded its line of selective soldering nozzles, giving manufacturers ...
BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a compact, robust, and low-cost method for interconnecting printed circuit boards (PCBs) without ...
[Craig Lindley] recently finished building his own RGB LED cube project. It’s made up of four layers of 4×4 LED grids, but you may notice that the framework that supports the structure is not the ...