One way you can control the temperature of a soldering iron is with a microcontroller, using temperature feedback from the thermistor in the handle near the iron's tip. This Design Idea presents a ...

Coolaler forum member Toppc got his hands on an engineering sample of Intel's Core i7-4960X and decided to check out what's behind the heatspreader of this upcoming Ivy Bridge-E chip. Interestingly, ...

Back in 2015 [Ben Wang] attempted to re-invent the protoboard with the Perf+. Not long afterward, some improvements (more convenient hole size and better solder mask among others) yielded an updated ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Nearly every review of Ivy Bridge, including those that were done with engineering samples, has noted that Ivy Bridge runs up to 20*C hotter when ...

As our own Elliot Williams laid out, many people think that soldering is a key skill for electronics, but we don’t as often think about desoldering. Even if you are perfect in your technique, there’s ...

Most, if not all, engineers know how to handle a soldering iron. But there are a few folks in the industry who want to know more about those wisps of smoke they sometimes see rising from our ...

Richardson RFPD is stocking a family of power IGBTs from Vincotechin the new VINco E3 package. VINco E3 features ‘SoLid Cover’ technology in an industry-standard low-profile package. “It enables ...