Soldering and Desoldering Tips and Tricks
Video Walkthrough
How do I turn on the soldering irons in PRLTA 103?
How do I solder through-hole components by hand?
- Soldering through-hole components video from EEVblog
- How to solder - through hole soldering tutorial from sparkfun
How do I solder surface mount components by hand?
Capacitors, diodes, inductors, resistors
- How to solder SMT 0805 components video from ItsInOurKernel
- Surface Mount Soldering 101 video from CuriousInventor
DPAK-style components (MOSFETs, voltage regulators)
- Soldering DPACK components video from EEVblog
Integrated circuits (ICs)
- Soldering large ICs video from EEVblog
- Surface Mount Soldering 101 video from CuriousInventor
- Soldering QFN and QFP package video from Nick Leijenhorst
How do I solder surface mount components using a reflow oven?
This method involves applying solder paste to the pads on the PCB, manually placing your surface mount components into the solder paste, and baking the board in a special oven to solder the entire PCB at once. This method is not really easier than hand soldering for one-off PCBs; you are trading one set of challenges for a different set. If you are interested in using solder paste and the reflow oven to solder your components, please contact Osama Jameel in PRLTA 109.
What is PSoC?
The Cypress Programmable System on a Chip (PSoC®) is a mixed-signal electronic hardware platform that integrates a microcontroller core, programmable analog signal processing blocks, programmable digital hardware blocks, and capacitive touch sensing. The following is a list of helpful resources for getting started with the PSoC®:
