BFX tipped us to this video of professional soldering techniques in the comments of our Soldering the 8bit PIC SchmartBOARD post. The video shows how to prepare, solder, and clean a board with SMT components. Amongst other things, this tutorial shows how to solder one side of a fine pitch QFP device in one swoop […]
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Surface mount soldering tutorial
EEVblog made a SMD hand soldering tutorial. In the video Dave explains how to solder small SMD capacitors and resistors, all the standard size pitches for ICs up to a 0.5mm pitch, as well as some tips how to use large thermal pads, like adding thermal paste or preheating the board and the IC.
Bus Pirate v3 protoboard back in stock
The Bus Pirate v3/SOIC protoboard is back in stock at Seeed Studio. Get one for $10.
SMD parts in a kit?
How comfortable are you with surface mount parts? Would you build a kit that included some or all surface mount components? Seeed Studio will stock our next few projects as both a kit and assembled hardware. Some kits will include all SMD parts in 0805, SSOP, and other small packages, like the Bus Pirate and […]