Hackaday (unofficial) October 5, 2022 3:00am Surface Mount Soldering Practice for Budding Electrical Engineers #howto #555timer #handsoldering #smd #smdsoldering #smt #smtled #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Surface Mount Soldering Practice For Budding Electrical Engineers Electronics components are steadily moving away from through hole parts to using surface mount technology (SMT) exclusively. While the small size of the SMT components can be intimidating, with a l…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 7, 2022 9:00pm Automate Parts Kitting With This Innovative SMD Tape Slicer #toolhacks #cutter #kitting #linearbearing #smd #stepper #tape #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Automate Parts Kitting With This Innovative SMD Tape Slicer Nobody likes a tedious manual job prone to repetitive stress injury, and such tasks rightly inspire an automated solution. This automatic SMD tape cutter is a good example of automating such a chor…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 5, 2022 10:00pm Miniature Motorized RC Car Is Massively Impressive #carhacks #attiny #enameledwire #fiberoptics #minaturization #minirccar #smartcar #smd #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Miniature Motorized RC Car Is Massively Impressive Small is often subjective. For example, a school bus is small compared to an Airbus A380. But other things are just small all on their own and need no comparison to make the point. Such is the case…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 7, 2022 6:00pm Pick and Place Hack Chat #hackadaycolumns #assembly #hackchat #pcb #pickandplace #pnp #robot #smd #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Pick And Place Hack Chat Join us on Wednesday, February 9 at noon Pacific for the Pick and Place Hack Chat with Chris Denney! We in the hacker trade are pretty used to miracles — we make them all the time. But even t…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 18, 2022 7:00am Acid-Damaged Game Boy Restored #games #acid #battery #damage #gameboy #gameboycolor #jumper #repair #restoration #smd #solder #wire #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Acid-Damaged Game Boy Restored The original Game Boy was the greatest selling handheld video game system of all time, only to be surpassed by one of its successors. It still retains the #2 position by a wide margin, but even so,…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 22, 2021 5:00pm Stencil Vacuum-Assist Helps Avoid the Heartbreak of Smeared Solder Paste #toolhacks #jig #smd #solderpaste #stencil #vacuum #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Stencil Vacuum-Assist Helps Avoid The Heartbreak Of Smeared Solder Paste While using a stencil should make solder paste application onto PCBs a simple affair, there are a number of “gotchas” that make it more art than science. Luckily, there are tools you ca…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 19, 2021 10:00am Kamehameha!! PCB Badge #art #ledhacks #badge #badgelife #dragonball #goku #kamehameha #smd #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Kamehameha!! PCB Badge PCB Art has surely captivated us over the past few years and we’re ever intrigued with the intricate detail the community puts into their work. We’re no strangers to [Arnov]’s wor…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 8, 2021 7:00pm Fail of the Week: Hackaday Writer Attempts XBox Repair #failoftheweek #hackadaycolumns #hotairstation #repair #rework #smd #smt #xbox #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Fail Of The Week: Hackaday Writer Attempts XBox Repair Like a lot of Hackaday readers, I pride myself on being “the fix-it guy” in my family. When something breaks, I get excited, because it’s a chance to show off my skills. It’…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 9, 2021 10:00pm Streamline Your SMD Assembly Process With 3D-Printed Jigs #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #jig #pcbassembly #smd #soldering #stencil #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Streamline Your SMD Assembly Process With 3D-Printed Jigs Your brand-new PCBs just showed up, and this time you even remembered to order a stencil. You lay the stencil on one of the boards, hold it down with one hand, and use the other to wipe some solder…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 1, 2021 7:00pm Pixel Pump Pick & Place Positions Parts Precisely #toolhacks #assemblytools #benchtools #pickandplace #smd #surfacemount #tools #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Pixel Pump Pick & Place Positions Parts Precisely You’ve finally decided to take the plunge and build a board with surface-mount parts. After carefully dispensing the solder paste with a syringe, it’s time to place the parts. You take …
Hackaday (unofficial) August 9, 2021 4:00pm So You Can Solder Small SMD Devices. The Question is, Just How Small? #parts #008004 #555 #smd #soldering #solderingchallenge #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 So You Can Solder Small SMD Devices. The Question Is, Just How Small? A highlight of last year’s Hackaday Remoticon was a soldering competition that had teams from around the world came together online and did the well-known MakersBox SMD Challenge kit in which…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 18, 2021 12:00am Using Heaters to Display Time #clockhacks #clock #display #esp8266 #heat #ntp #pcb #resistor #smd #thermochromic #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Using Heaters To Display Time We’re always fans of interesting clock builds around here, whether it’s a word clock, marble clock, or in this case a clock using a unique display method. Of course, since this is a bui…