When you think about the difficulties of working with surface mount components, the first thing that often comes to mind is trying to solder those tiny little parts. Instead of soldering those parts ...

What do you do when your motherboard is covered in electrolytic grime, has damaged pads and traces that are falling apart? You call [RetroGameModz] to work their magic with epoxy and solder. While ...

EETimes reports Solder pads could soon be made obsolete by a new nanotape material created by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Stanford University The researchers predict that early ...

Limited data are available on optimized pad sizes and geometries for the surface mount industry. Data which are available come largely from wave solder applications where an adhesive is first applied ...

Ok, I have a Onkyo receiver that has a tendency to have its display go boom. So I do what every handy geek does is whip their soldering iron out and replace the broken components. In this case it was ...

Earlier today, iFixit conducted a teardown the new Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad 2 and Magic Mouse 2. They've now followed that up with a teardown of the brand new 21.5-inch 4K iMac, and while the ...