Electronic Design

Common PCB Soldering Problems to Avoid

The quality of the soldering has a tremendous impact on the overall quality of the PCB. Through soldering, different parts of the PCB are connected to other electrical components to make a PCB ...
Hackaday

Tools Of The Trade – Through Hole Assembly

In our last installment of Tools of the Trade, we had just finished doing the inspection of the surface mount part of the PCB. Next in the process is the through hole components. Depending on the PCB, ...
Electronic Design

Common PCB Soldering Problems to Avoid (.PDF Download)

The quality of the soldering has a tremendous impact on the overall quality of the PCB. Through soldering, different parts of the PCB are connected to other electrical components to make a PCB ...
Geeky Gadgets

Pixel Pump open source PCB pick-and-place machine

If you spend your time creating prototype PCB boards all small production runs you may be interested in a new open source manual PCB pick-and-place machine specifically created for “PCB artisans” say ...
EDN

X-Ray Inspection In PCB Assembly (PCBA)

In recent years, the area array components like BGA, QFN, CSP, and flip chips, are aplicate wider and wider in the electronics manufacturing. Such as BGA, comparing with other components, it has ...
Hackaday

Ask Hackaday: What’s Your Worst Soldering Job?

Soldering! It’s the primary method for attaching one component to another in the world of electronics. Whether you’re free-forming a circuit, attaching connectors to cables, or populating a PCB, ...