[Andy Brown] is a prolific hacker and ends up building a lot of hardware. About a year back, he built a reflow oven controller. The board he designed used a large number of surface mount parts. This ...

As the Eurpean Union moves toward a July 1 ban on products containing lead and other hazardous materials, a lead-free solder developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory is playing a ...

Flexible printed circuit (FPC) coverlays are meant to overlay and protect the fine circuits, giving them flexibility and sheltering them from damage by temperatures, humidity, pollutants and erosive ...