Tammy Brasseaux entered the Hot Connections: Zen and the Art of Soldering class earlier this week terrified of the blue and red flame flaring from the torch used to heat and shape the metal. By ...

There’s an old saying about something being a “drop in the ocean.” That’s how I felt faced with the prospect of replacing a 12 V heated bed on my printer with a new 24 V one. The old bed had a nice ...

The image of the electrical engineer or hacker bent over and using a soldering iron on a circuit board is a classic visual cliché on TV and movies (Figure 1). Figure 1 The electrical engineer working ...