Getting the hang of through-hole soldering is tricky for those of us tinkering at home with our irons, spools, flux, and, sometimes, braids. It’s almost reassuring, then, to learn that through-hole ...

Recap: The Raspberry Pi 5 was launched in 2023, delivering more than twice the performance of the previous generation. The board was also instrumental in bringing a small, yet significant change in ...

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When you’re making a computer known for being super-cheap, every penny counts—and that also applies when you’re counting how many returns you have to deal with. Raspberry Pi says that thanks to some ...

Do your Mark 1 Eyeballs no longer hold their own when it comes to fine work close up? Soldering can be a literal pain under such conditions, and even for the Elf-eyed among us, dealing with pads at a ...

The task of ensuring that every single pad in a rectangular matrix comes into contact with its opposite number precisely, without any dirt or oxidation, during the manufacturing process was not ...