Nick Sayer created a toaster oven reflow soldering controller:Toast-R-ReflowIt seems like a right of passage for makers that progress to surface mount work: building your own oven (or other appliance) to do reflow soldering.The design consists of a power...
update: this truckload of treasure was Craigslisted onto a stoked local person and his father, both of whom were excited for the possibilities. Consider giving away your old stuff, you might make someone happy.Danica and I are preparing to move...
So.. There’s no fun like hand-solder those cute little SMD packages with tiny pads that remain completely hidden, isn’t it? LGA, BGA, QFN, BFN, music to the ears of those who have the strange fetish of actually trying to solder by hand packages...
First let me apologize for the pictures, I was too lazy to grab my DSLR so my "trusty" Samsung Galaxy S2 had to be enough.So let's dive into my adventure with SMD soldering with a toaster oven. I had all I would need to test this method myself. The boards...
Almost three years ago I bought some 0805 cyan LEDs to make a tiny stargate inspired display. Since I haven't figured out any markings and wasn't able to hand solder them the project was on ice. Last week I've revisited the idea and designed some pcbs...
So today the boards arrived from OSHPark and I will put all the stuff together on sunday and throw it into my toaster oven, hoping for the best! As seen before those boards have quite obvious markings, since the LEDs do lack that - I hope for the best...
CHANGE LOG2015-02-17 Joined with update page2015-02-14 first versionINTRODUCTIONSo I designed a circuit, without making a pcb and sending it to OSHPark today. First I want to make sure, if what I've done is correct or not and right now I'm too confused...
Sarah Petkus wrote on her Robotic Arts blog about toaster hacking:Eye of ToastI would like you to meet my toaster. The toaster is an old character of mine who has survived through subtle reference in the things I draw and build. Nothing I make is about...
Introduction to my book "Building Embedded Systems, Programmable Hardware"To those who enjoy doing things that are otherwise meaningless in the eyes of many.Embedded systems are conspicuous by their omnipresence. But most people take them for granted...