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SparkFun Hot Air Rework with David Stillman PACE Inc. Soldering SMD fine pitch component (8a) Hot Air Mini Wave Soldering How to solder a 1206 SMD resistor with solder paste (caution, very delicate) Surface Mount (SMD) Hot Air Soldering Soldering an xDrip PCB, Part 1 Easy way to Solder Surface Mount Parts! – How I

Hot air soldering videos

Miniature Hot Air Gun for SMT Rework from Banggood Easy way to Solder Surface Mount Parts! – How I do it Degree LCD Adjustable Electronic Heat Hot Air Gun IC SMD BGA Desoldering Station with 4 Nozzles HD DX: GONGJUE 8018LCD 0.8″ LCD Screen Portable Temperature-controlled Hot Air Gun Quickly Pulling out SMD with Hot

JCD 8898 Two in one SMD Soldering Iron & Heat Gun Rework Station

I wanted to get a station that had both soldering iron and hot air solder integrated to one compact device. I found product JCD 8898 2 in 1 750W Soldering Station Hot Air Heater LCD Digital Display Soldering Iron Welding Rework Station for Cell-phone BGA SMD PCB IC Repair available at low price. Features: Hot

Right to repair 2021

A lot of people are asking for the right to repair. Many people believe products should last longer, and therefore when broken, they should be repaired. This requires products to be designed for repair as well as support for repairers of all kinds. The goal of right-to-repair rules, advocates say, is to require companies to

VideoLAN 20 years

VideoLAN (VLC) is a free, open source multi-platform media player and environment that plays most media files and DVD-VCDs as well as Audio CDs and various streaming protocols. VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software, and streaming media server

Cyber security news February 2021

This posting is here to collect cyber security news in February 2021. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. You are also free to post related links to comments.

Cyber security trends for 2021

Nothing is more difficult than making predictions. For this reason I did not do any “predictions for 2021 cyber security” posting before year 2021 started. Instead of trowing out wild ideas what might be coming, I have collected here some trends other people have predicted or reported. The State of internet security in 2020 was

Some DIY tricks used to save events and TV broadcast

I was pretty actively in making the Assembly computer festival event and the live TV broadcasts made them in the late 1990′s and early 2000′s (and still somewhat in some later years). Here are some tricks learned on that era: Triax cables are used in TV broadcast industry for TV camera interconnections (connecting camera to

Raspberry Pi Pico board

Interesting new micro-controller board and custom chip from Raspberry Pi: Raspberry Pi Pico. Pico provides a single push button, which can be used to enter USB mass-storage mode at boot time and also as a general input, and a single LED. It exposes 26 of the 30 GPIO pins on RP2040, including three of the