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 ...

Until now, LED manufacturers maintained unique solder pad size and shape solder pads and processing options making it impossible for diverse types to be accommodated on a single board. A unique ...

When you think about the difficulties of working with surface mount components, the first thing that often comes to mind is trying to solder those tiny little parts. Instead of soldering those parts ...

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 ...

The printed circuit board assembly process has undergone revolutionary changes over the past three decades. What once relied ...

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 ...

The result is that the entire board is much denser, and comments can be installed on both sides of the PC board, as seen in Figure 2 . Since the board does not require drilling for component leads ...