Fabricating you own PCB’s and fiddling with the ever decreasing surface mount footprints. Any resistance to the latter proves futile, expensive, and frankly a bit silly in retrospect.

SV Microwave has recently launched a new line of PCB connectors with a brand-new body orientation angled 30° away from the PCB. The body of these connectors has been thoughtfully designed to enhance ...

SMT (surface mount technology) component placement systems, commonly called pick-and-place machines or P&Ps, are robotic machines which are used to place surface-mount devices (SMDs) onto a printed ...

PCB stencils make application of solder paste ... Granted, such a tool is a lot more work than tape and spare PCBs, but if you do a lot of SMD work, it may be worth the effort.