For a late-1990s engineer with good soldering skills, many a free pint of beer could be earned by installing modchips...
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Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean people aren’t out to get you. Do you think your soldering iron is...
You have some fine pitch soldering to do, but all you have on hand is a big soldering iron. What...
Anyone who’s spent significant amounts of time salvaging old electronics has probably wished there were a way to take apart...
With vector network analyzers, the commercial offerings seem to come in two flavors: relatively inexpensive but limited capabilities, and full-featured...
LEDs are getting smaller and smaller, and the newest generations of indexable RGB LEDs are even fiddlier to use than...
The current generation of USB-powered soldering irons have a lot going for them, chief among them being portability and automatic...
Soldering irons and their tips come in a wide range of formats and styles, with the (originally Hakko) T12 being...
Many decades ago, when soldering was an activity more often associted with copper fabrication than with electronics, a soldering iron...
Applying solder paste to a new custom PCB is always a little nerve-racking. One slip of the hand, and you...
Imagine this. A young person comes to you wanting to get started in the electronic hobby. They ask what five...
In 1983, a 14-year-old saw an LED clock in The Sharper Image store. At $250, it stayed in the store....
When we think of assembling a PCB, we’re almost always thinking about solder. Whether in paste form or on the...
A word of warning before watching this very cool video on soldering: it may make you greatly desire what appears...
Like many people who solder regularly, I decided years ago to upgrade from a basic iron and invest in a...
It is common these days to have a soldering iron where you can set the temperature using some sort of...
It is hard to imagine experimenting with electronics without the ubiquitous solderless breadboard. We are sure you have a few...
When we first saw this 1944 US Office of Education film about hand soldering, we figured it might still have...
Release Date: May 22, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
