I learn soldering SMD is a super simple kit designed to give you a (relatively) pain-free crash course in that topic! While SMD might look a bit scary in the beginning it's easily manageable when you ...

OMSDR is a simple HF SDR receiver frontend inspired by the SoftRock Lite II. It is designed as SMD soldering practice kit to demonstrate the power of SMD technology, meant as an entry point for ...

See also the Platino Soldering Station for more discussions about this project. The project is about a cheap SMD solder station built as an Arduino shield (Arduino UNO). It supports active soldering ...

See also the Platino Soldering Station for more discussions about this project. The project is about a cheap SMD solder station built as an Arduino shield (Arduino UNO). It supports active soldering ...

SMD soldering – At first, I tinned all the circuit board pads for the SMD chips before trying to mount them. That was a mistake. With both pads for chip tinned, heating up one end of the chip caused ...

When you are troubleshooting, it is sometimes useful to disconnect a part of your circuit to see what happens. If your new PCB isn’t perfect, you might also need to add some extra wires or components ...

It’s usually possible to solder ‘ordinary’ SMD components using a low-power soldering iron and small-gauge solder. However, it’s a completely different story when you have to solder a component in a ...

Abstract: In this paper, the tombstoning failure is investigated during heat-level type vapour phase reflow soldering (VPS), where the heat transfer is based on condensation. Different measurements ...