You can do your own Surface ... to stuff the components into the holes. A few specialized tools make this a lot easier, but resourceful hackers will be able to pull together a solder paste stencil ...

Electronics components are steadily moving ... providing various techniques to help in soldering. The boards have practice “stalks” of surface mount component pads, so that folks can practice ...

More importantly, I got comfortable handling a soldering iron without the pressure of ruining a valuable component. Through-hole technology (THT) is much more forgiving than surface-mount devices ...

Surface mounted technology (SMT) close surface mounted technology (SMT) Components that can be soldered directly to a board rather than having to be pushed through a hole. is used to place ...

TDK has created a range of surface-mount high-current common-mode chokes. “Customers who prefer reflow soldering but need high-current common-mode chokes can now get an SMD solution,” according to the ...