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Sometimes there are moments when an engineer has to use whatever materials they have to hand in order to complete the job on time. Such a situation arose at the …read more Continue reading Making a Solder Paste Stencil From What You Have On Hand
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
With the low-cost PCB fabrication services available to hackers and makers these days, we’ll admit that making your own boards at home doesn’t hold quite the appeal that it did …read more Continue reading A New Way To Produce PCBs With Your 3D Printer
Sometimes it might seem as if your electronics are just jinxed. For [Niva_v_kopirce] it was the control board of his nephew’s RC car that kept frying the transistors. In situations …read more Continue reading RC Car Repair With Beer Can Solder Stencil
While using a stencil should make solder paste application onto PCBs a simple affair, there are a number of “gotchas” that make it more art than science. Luckily, there are …read more Continue reading Stencil Vacuum-Assist Helps Avoid the Heartbreak of Smeared Solder Paste
Your brand-new PCBs just showed up, and this time you even remembered to order a stencil. You lay the stencil on one of the boards, hold it down with one …read more Continue reading Streamline Your SMD Assembly Process With 3D-Printed Jigs
Imagine having a surface mount kit that you’d like to stencil with solder paste and reflow solder, but which doesn’t come with a solder stencil. That was what faced [Honghong Lu], and she rose to the challenge by taking a piece of PET sheet cut from discarded packaging and hand-cutting …read more
Continue reading Who Says Solder Paste Stencils Have To Be CNC Cut?
We around the Hackaday shop never get tired of seeing new ways to mark the passage of time. Hackers come up with all manner of interesting timekeeping modalities using every imaginable material and method of moving the mechanism once per whatever minimum time unit the hacker chooses to mark.
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Continue reading A Linear Stencil Clock Built for Quiet Operation
Here at Hackaday we love all kinds of builds, and we celebrate anytime anyone puts parts together into something else. And while we love the quick and dirty builds, there’s just something about the fit and finish of this four-axis SMD stencil printer that really pushes our buttons.
This build …read more
Continue reading This Four-Axis Stencil Printer is the Ultimate in SMD Alignment Tools
PCB stencils make application of solder paste a snap, but there’s a long, fussy way to go before the paste goes on. You’ve got to come up with some way to accurately align the stencil over the board, which more often than not involves a jury-rigged setup using tape and …read more
Continue reading Adjustable Jig Eases PCB Stencil Alignment Process