Imagine having a surface mount kit that you’d like to stencil with solder paste and reflow solder, but which doesn’t come with a solder stencil. That was what faced [Honghong Lu], and she rose to the ...

While using a stencil should make solder paste application onto PCBs a simple affair, there are a number of “gotchas” that make it more art than science. Luckily, there are tools you can build, like ...

Fix: The gerber format MUST be RS274X (opposed to RS274D). The RS274X format is the most current industry standard and includes aperture information in the gerber itself instead of requiring a ...