An SMD Capacitor Guide
For electronics, your knowledge probably follows a bit of a bell curve over time. When you start out, you know nothing. But you eventually learn a lot. Then you learn …read more Continue reading An SMD Capacitor Guide
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For electronics, your knowledge probably follows a bit of a bell curve over time. When you start out, you know nothing. But you eventually learn a lot. Then you learn …read more Continue reading An SMD Capacitor Guide
Is [William Herr]’s RPDot actually the world’s smallest RP2040 dev board? We can’t say for sure, but at 10 mm on a side, we’d say it has a pretty good …read more Continue reading RPDot: The RP2040 Dev Board Barely Bigger than the Chip
The Pixel Pump is an open source manual pick & place assist tool by [Robin Reiter], and after a long road to completion, it’s ready to ship. We first saw …read more Continue reading Pixel Pump, the Open Source Vacuum Pickup Tool is Now Shipping
Even if surface-mount skills aren’t in your repertoire, chances are pretty good that most of us are at least familiar with SMD stencils. These paper-thin laser-cut steel sheets are a …read more Continue reading LED Matrix Displays Get New Look Thanks to SMD Stencils
Component reels are a highly-0ptimized packaging format. They deliver components to pick and place machines for effective high-speed assembly. As more of us get into working with SMD components, we’re …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Tool Lets You Measure Component Reels Easily
Most of us learn to read digital clocks first, which display the time in obvious numbers. Analog clocks are often learned later, with the hands taking our young brains a …read more Continue reading Binary Watch Rocks a Bare PCB With Pride
Surface mount components have been a game changer for the electronics hobbyist, but doing reflow soldering right requires some way to evenly heat the board. You might need to buy …read more Continue reading Internal Heating Element Makes These PCBs Self-Soldering
We don’t see too many wooden projects around these parts, but when [olikraus] turned a few pieces of scrap lumber into a functional SMD vise, how could we not take …read more Continue reading A Homebrew SMD Vise Built from Scrap Wood
Inspired by a prank tweet, [Sam Ettinger] endeavored to create an SMD seven-segment display. The NanoRaptor NanoSegment implements a panel of seven-segment display modules sized at “0806” each or just …read more Continue reading Nano-Sized 7-Segment LED Display on a Surface Mount Module
Electronics components are steadily moving away from through hole parts to using surface mount technology (SMT) exclusively. While the small size of the SMT components can be intimidating, with a …read more Continue reading Surface Mount Soldering Practice for Budding Electrical Engineers