If you are lucky enough to encounter a piece of homebrew electronics from the 1950s, the chances are that under the covers the components will be assembled on solder tags, each component with long ...

For most of us, soldering electronics means soldering on “through hole components,” that are large and easy to handle. However, when machines build components, they use “surface mount components,” ...

[rgbphil] has done a great job detailing how he built his Microdot wristwatch.This project is a lot more approachable than the pong watch we saw last month. If you’ve made a few printed circuit boards ...

Designers of equipment such as cellular handsets, car-navigation systems, and wireless local-area networks (WLANs) can now design large-scale PCBs with accurate electrical models for high-performance ...

C&K Components has developed a new surface-mount option for the JS Slide series of low-profile, cost-effective miniature slide switches. C&K Components has developed a new surface-mount option for the ...

Manufacturing of a modern component-laded printed circuit board (PCB) is an amazing fusion and coordination of diverse technologies. There’s the board as substrate itself, the stencils and masks that ...

The small sizes and pad areas of surface-mount components make them difficult to probe. Typically, when you use an oscilloscope probe, it is difficult to keep the probe tip and ground bayonet from ...