When doing surface-mount assembly you can certainly use a soldering iron in the traditional way, but it’s far more convenient to cover the pads with solder paste, place the components, and bake the ...

The Start of the Story: Solder Paste Used in Thinky Products At the start of the 1990s, Thinky sold and manufactured measuring instruments as well as mixers for alginic acid. Solder paste (cream ...

With improvements in technology enhancing people’s lives, electronic products requirements have become greater in terms of being lighter, thinner, smaller, higher performance, and having more ...

Should folks building small numbers of circuit boards use surface-mount parts, or should they stick with through-hole components that are so much easier to handle and solder (not to mention see)?