Even if you’ve overcome your fear diddling about with tiny SMD components, applying solder paste – especially if you’re populating more than one board at a time – is still a chore. The pros use very ...

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Unless you’d like to spend hours with a toothpick and a tub of solder paste, stencils are the way to go whenever you’re placing SMD parts. While most commercial and industrial SMD stencils are made ...

After my post during Halloween week regarding various ways pumpkins can be decorated other than just the stereotypical carving, I received quite a few e-mails about stencils. Specifically, most people ...