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 ...

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 ...

In the soldering process of micro-pitch solder pad components, traditional techniques such as wave soldering and manual ...

Power Integrations recommends the use of IR/convection reflow for surface-mount attach of the InSOP package. However, the InSOP package was designed with wave soldering in-mind in case IR/ convection ...

The Ball Grid Array, or BGA package is no longer the exclusive preserve of large, complex chips on computer motherboards: today even simple microcontrollers are available with those little solder ...

As a leading materials provider in the electronics industry, Indium Corporation will feature its innovative products at SMTA ...

So, I installed a new DC power jack on a laptop motherboard. Being the genius I am, I thought I would add a little epoxy around the jack on the top of the board to ensure it stayed put and didn't ...

We got a whiff of MAKE's Daisy a while back, but now we've finally managed to get our hands on one of these open source MP3 player kits. Today we'll whip out our soldering iron and show you how things ...