We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Signe Brewster and James Austin Hack a Game Boy, assemble a mechanical ...

A proper soldering iron is one of the fundamental tools that a good hacker needs. Preferably one that has a temperature control so it can handle different types of solder and connectors. Decent ...

The warm and rather stinky heart of any hacker’s lair is the soldering station, where the PCB meets the metal (solder). A good soldering station lets you get on with the business of building stuff ...

Cheap, light, and open-source: the Pinecil is a no-brainer for most tinkerers. Cheap, light, and open-source: the Pinecil is a no-brainer for most tinkerers. Learning to solder was a life-changing ...

Soldering is one of the most useful skills you can learn in the DIY world, especially for repairing your electronics. But a lot of soldering irons are inadequate or inconvenient, so iFixit released ...

It costs two to 10 times as much as a Pinecil, though! It costs two to 10 times as much as a Pinecil, though! is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys.

Audio and Video Cables are not just dependent on the wire or cable used, or the connectors used. The quality of the connection between the wire or cable and connector is just as important, if not more ...

The following application note is a guide for soldering wire connections to Turret Pin Terminals on the Mini-Circuits ZX series Amplifier, Power Detector, Voltage Variable Attenuator, Digital Step ...

Harrisburg, Pa. — A new series of one piece, high temperature, SMT-compatible PC-board terminal blocks from Phoenix Contact Inc. can be integrated into surface-mount manufacturing processes, which ...