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The Effective Methods to Hand-solder a PowerPad IC

The PowerPad, one of most popular floor mat game controllers for the Nintendo Entertainment System is having many supporters from worldwide. According to the statistic, its sales rate is only second of the Wii, which is a pretty an amazing achievement for the Nintendo Company.
Basically, the PowerPad is known as Family Trainer in Japan, while [...]

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This UV Exposure Light Box Will Make You Like a Secret Agent!

Well, have you ever heard of this UV exposure light box before? For those of you here that don’t know what the heck of this stuff, you should spare a few minutes and read on this article…
If you’re familiar with the photo exposure PCB type production, you’ll probably need to make yourself a UV exposure [...]

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This Oven is Not For Heating Foods!

Do you ever wish to create an oven, which it can be used to reflow the soldering inside it? Well, instead of wasting your time thinking about it, why don’t you spend a couple of hours and make one for your own use?
The Reflow soldering oven that you’re going to create is equipped with the [...]

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DIY Reflow Toaster at Your Home (Be Careful Not to Blow it!)

Reflow toaster making is a very fun and exciting experience and the interest thing about it doesn’t even cost you too much to start this project.

Ok, first thing first, you need to purchase a cheap second hand toaster from WallMart or anywhere you can think of it (It will measly cost you about $50-$80 for [...]

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Enjoy Your Breakfast with Reflow

You are too busy with your electronic work and cannot even have a time for a fast breakfast? Well, with this innovative skillet breakfast reflow, I guessed you have not more reason to escape your breakfast…lol

As you can see on the above picture, we can make delicious pancake at the right skillet while we can [...]

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Make high quality PCBs at home by using photo etching method

If you are just starting in electronics this nice tutorial may save you tons of time. Yourtronics prepared a nice tutorial on how to make good quality PCB by using Photo Etching Method where board image is transferred during UV exposure. For this you will need an Ink-Jet printer for printing mask on transparent film, [...]

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