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 ...

In Part 3 of our weeklong series about local manufacturing, WGLT visits a Bloomington company that serves both farms and the ...

Abstract: For electronic products operating under the vibration environment, generally solder joints fail due to break of the solder joints on the board at the high-stress position. How can we know ...

[Jack Gassett] is developing a new breakout board for an FPGA. The chip comes in a ball grid array (BGA) package which is notoriously difficult to solder reliably. Since he’s still in development, the ...

Printed Circuit Board Prototyping (PCBP) facility in the Myhal Centre is jointly supported by MIE, ECE and U of T Engineering ...

Through-hole assembly means bending leads on components and putting the leads through holes in the circuit board, then soldering them in place, and trimming the wires. That took up too much space and ...

RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents, the global distributor for engineers, has launched a 40-pin solder-tag board for the highly popular Raspberry Pi credit-card sized computer ...