There’s a strange middle ground in PCB production when it comes to making a few boards. Dispensing solder paste onto one board is easy enough with a syringe or toothpick, but when pasting up even a ...

Whether you’re a book-learned engineer looking to finally get your hands on building circuits, or a maker, hobbyist, or student, these instructional videos get you started. The basic metallurgy of ...

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

Carson Burt, a technical support engineer at Indium Corporation, will deliver a technical presentation on solder paste best ...

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 ...

Terrell, Texas-based Conecsus LLC says it will exhibit at the SMTA Juarez Expo & Tech Forum April 6, 2017, at the event in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The company says it will be displaying how it ...

There was a time when reflow soldering was an impossibly exotic process at our level, something that only the most superhuman of hackers could even dream of attempting. But a demystification of the ...

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) have become the foundation of contemporary electronics, appearing in nearly all electronic equipment. The worldwide printed circuit board industry is continually ...