It’s been a while since we’ve had a fresh How-To on the Hack-A-Day, and frankly we’ve missed them. To get things rolling, [Eliot] and I wanted to build a good knowledge base to help you hack your own ...

What do you do when your motherboard is covered in electrolytic grime, has damaged pads and traces that are falling apart? You call [RetroGameModz] to work their magic with epoxy and solder. While ...

EETimes reports Solder pads could soon be made obsolete by a new nanotape material created by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Stanford University The researchers predict that early ...

Limited data are available on optimized pad sizes and geometries for the surface mount industry. Data which are available come largely from wave solder applications where an adhesive is first applied ...

Power Integrations recommends the use of IR/convection reflow for surface-mount attach of the InSOP package. However, the InSOP package was designed with wave soldering in-mind in case IR/ convection ...

The quality of the soldering has a tremendous impact on the overall quality of the PCB. Through soldering, different parts of the PCB are connected to other electrical components to make a PCB ...

Ok, I have a Onkyo receiver that has a tendency to have its display go boom. So I do what every handy geek does is whip their soldering iron out and replace the broken components. In this case it was ...

Droped ye ol switch yesterday. The good news is the L buttond decided to cushion the fall so there was no major damage. Bad news is it sacrificed the solder joint of the button in the process. I can ...

Detrimental voids have been discovered in Pb-free solder joints, according to a University of Leicester researcher. The researcher, post-graduate Sergey Belyakov, is taking a deep look at Pb-free ...