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Learn Simple Surface Mount Soldering in Collin’s Lab

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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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. […]

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Voltera’s Circuit Printer Launches on Kickstarter, Smashes Goal in Minutes

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 […]

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OSH Stencils, a Prototype PCB Stencil Maker

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 […]

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SMD Capacitance Hack

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!

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