Learn Simple Surface Mount Soldering in Collin’s Lab
Many of us are intimidated by surface mount soldering, but as Collin Cunningham shows in this video, we shouldn’t be
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Marie Claire Pairs Stylized PCB Designs with Luxury Jewelry
Boldport collaborates with Marie Claire for a series of custom circuit boards designed around luxury jewelry.
BotFactory Wins 2015 MakerCon Launch Pad Competition
MakerCon’s Launch Pad competition culminated Tuesday in a grand prize awarded to Brooklyn-based startup BotFactory and their desktop circuit printer Squink. With Squink, BotFactory is hoping to simplify and streamline electronic prototyping by offering a single machine capable of printing circuit traces with conductive ink and gluing, picking, and placing small surface mount components automatically. […]
Voltera’s Circuit Printer Launches on Kickstarter, Smashes Goal in Minutes
The Voltera V-One circuit printer, one of our favorite finds at CES this year, just launched its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter — and hit $100,000 in 35 minutes. The Voltera system provides multiple capabilities: It will print the traces for your prototype circuit board (at 8mil space and trace), dispense solder paste to allow you […]
OSH Stencils, a Prototype PCB Stencil Maker
A lot of electronics hackers I know use OSH Park‘s PCB manufacturing service, where you send in your files and for a pittance, they manufacture circuit boards based on your design and mail you the result. Now the same different folks are forming a solder stencil service, OSH Stencils: We were continually burdened by the […]
SMD Capacitance Hack
Akiba of Freaklabs, a Tokyo-based open-source electronics kitmaker, needed to add some 0805 surface-mount capacitors to an existing PCB, so he stacked them up! super ghetto bulk capacitance hack. my RF amp is more power hungry than i expected… See the related links below for more of Akiba’s awesome work!
A Closer Look at Solder Paste
Zooming in on solder paste is more interesting than you might think.
