In this guest blog post, taken from the Eurocircuits blog, Ben Verwaest considers whether hand-soldering can reach the same high quality result as reflow or wave soldering. In this guest blog post, ...

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 ...

A fundamental course on hand soldering and a practical workshop on electrostatic discharge (ESD) and electronic assembly recently benefited 60 participants from Sri Lankan electrical and electronic ...

At some stage you will have to work with surface-mount devices (SMDs) and solder them by hand. You can wait until you are forced to learn, or you can leap into the fray with gusto and abandon. At some ...

Most Hackaday readers will be a pretty dab hand with a soldering iron. We can assemble surface-mount boards, SOICs and TSSOPs are a doddle, 0402s we take in our stride, and we laugh in the face of ...

There is a plethora of electronics tutorials scattered about online. Sometimes it can be hard to separate the good ones from the bad, and the enlightening from the misinformed. We recently came across ...