You have some fine pitch soldering to do, but all you have on hand is a big soldering iron. What do you do? There are a few possible answers, but [Mr SolderFix] likes to pull a strand from a large ...

In the mid-1980s, the electronics industry began a nearly unanimous move towards using surface-mount technology (SMT), Figure 1. This article assumes you have an existing PCB or other suitable board ...

Onlinecomponents.com, an authorized distributor of Kemet Electronics products, features the KEMET T494 Series. The series is a lower ESR version of the power of the popular T491 series designed ...

I remember when I took electronics in high school; one of the first things we learned was how to solder. Now this was a while ago (1976 actually) and I realize that not everyone learns how to solder ...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has many out-of-this-world elements, as a show set in the future about aliens and cosmic anomalies. However, many Trekkies agree that the perfectly coifed hair of one ...

When you are troubleshooting, it is sometimes useful to disconnect a part of your circuit to see what happens. If your new PCB isn’t perfect, you might also need to add some extra wires or components ...

When Jessa Jones’ twin daughters flushed her iPhone down the toilet, it set in motion an unlikely series of events that led to a feud with Apple. First, she blew up her toilet to retrieve her phone.

Apple's Unified Memory Architecture first brought changes to the Mac with Apple Silicon M1 chips. There are clear architectural benefits for the hardware — and it is both good and bad for consumers.