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123 blocks
44 Button IR remote
Advanced electronic videos
Alligator clip DIY tool
Alligator Clip 3rd Hand to Binder Clip
Alligator clip soldering aid tool examples
Anti static wrist strap
Arduino As ISP
Arduino links of interest
Arduino protection for pins when bread boarding
Battery connector recycling
Bench block
Bezel, adding a clear Acrylic to box
Bezel, using a CNC
Bezel making from CD and DVD cases
Blind Standoff with threaded brass insert
Blind Standoff mounting feet
Blind screw mounting feet, stopping rotation
Blind Standoff nut tool
Boost converter potentiometer removal, MT3608
Brass inserts 1
Brass inserts 2
Brass inserts 3
Brass inserts 4
Brass insert heat set iron tips
Breadboard 5V and 0V from ICSP headers
Breadboard, breadboard friendly component’s
Breadboard, breadboard friendly modules
Breadboard helpers #1
Breadboard helpers #2
Breadboard helpers #3
Breadboard helpers #4
Breadboard component leads bending
Breadboard component lead identification
Breadboard ideas
Breadboard power rail jumper wires
Breadboard powering, using a breadboard USB helper
Breadboard resistor helper board protection
Breadboard SMD LED breadboard helper DIY
Breadboard SMD switch breadboard helper DIY
Breadboard terminal block connections
Breadboard vertical component mounting idea #1
Breadboard vertical component mounting idea #2
Breadboard wire storage
Cable sheath using nylon para cord
Cable sheath DIY technique
CH340 driver
Circuit Examples
Clamp, binder clip magnetic clamp tool
Clamps magnetic hold down clamp
Clamps magnetic hold down camp with soft tip
Clamps magnetic hold down clamp cleaning the magnet
Clamps magnetic hold down clamps used to test a powered PCB
Clamps magnetic hold down ‘High Boy’ clamp
Clamps magnetic hold down ‘High Boy’ clamp extension
Clamps magnetic hold down ‘High Boy’ clamp, examples of use
Clamps magnetic hold down 'High Boy' stand, make a double extension arm
Clamps magnetic hold down 'High Boy' stand, make an open ended double extension arm
Clamps magnetic pinch clamp #1
Clamps magnetic pinch clamp O-Ring
Clamps magnetic pinch clamp on powered up circuits
Clamps magnetic pinch clamp dual magnet
Clamps magnetic pinch clamp dual magnet soldering jig
Clamps magnetic pinch clamp/vise
Clamps magnetic pinch clamp construction
Clamps magnetic pinch clamp modification, add leverage
Clamps magnetic pinch clamp High Boy construction
Clamps magnetic binder clip clamp
Clamps Peg clamp conversion
Clamps pinch clamp stand-alone
Clamp, Pinch clamp summary
Clamps torsion spring clamp, inverted THT soldering
Clamps torsion spring clamp modification
Cleaning PCBs
Component Cup idea
Component lead identification
Core bit prototyping PCBs
Core bit drilling jig #1
Core bit drilling jig #2
Crimping wire connectors
Cutting a rectangular hole in a panel #1
Cutting a rectangular hole in a panel #2
Cutting shield for your workroom floor
DCM Methylene Chloride plastic welding
DCM applicator
De-magnetize tools
De-soldering gun modification and maintenance
De-soldering Header strips
De-soldering hot plate MHP30 1
De-soldering hot plate 2
De-soldering hot plate 3
De-soldering hot plate 4
De-soldering hot plate 5
De-soldering hot plate 6
De-soldering hot plate 7
De-soldering hot plate 8
De-soldering hot plate 10
De-soldering hot plate 11
De-soldering needles
De-soldering plated thru holes with wire
De-soldering solder wick, how to use with hot air
De-soldering spatulas
De-soldering brass spatula technique
De-soldering spatula technique
De-soldering SMD capacitor removal the a spatula
De-soldering without hot air
Din rails for Arduino
Drilling accurate holes in faceplates etc.
Drilling holes in plastic
Drilling holes in sheet metal
Drilling template board 1
Drilling template board 2
Drilling template stick 1
Drilling template stick 2
Dupont wire crimping directions
Dupont cabling, colour coding wires
DuPont connectors
Dupont connector crimpers
Dupont connector shrouds
Dupont ferrules
Dupont wire storage, use binder clips
Dust Box for your work room
Enclosures, make you own
Enlarging components
ESP32 breakout board for solderless breadboard
ESP-WROOM-32 Burning Fixture Development Board
ESP32 castellated soldering
Eyelets PCB and wire connections
Ferrules, DIY for small gauge stranded wires
Ferrules from PCB eyelets
Fixture Plate #1
Fixture Plate #2
Flow charting
Flux applicator
Flux applicator make an applicator bottle
Flux applicator refilling
Gender Changer Breadboard helpers
Gluing tip applicator
Gluing micro glue tips
Gluing vacuum syringe for gluing
Hardware fasteners
Header, removing female headers from Arduino PCBs
Header IDC bus bar idea
Header connector labeling
Header connector soldering to PCB with tweezers
Header pin strips soldering to daughter cards
Header connector wire splicing
Header pin cutting
Header pin cutting with Benchmate jig, see last images
Header pin cutting with a razor saw
Header pin piggybacking
Header removal
Heat shrink, water proofing the end of a cable
Heat shrink cutting jig
Heat shrink cutting jig bolt 1
Heat shrink cutting jig bolt 2
Heat shrink, making a protection sheath for your tools
Heat shrink, solderless breadboard wire with Dupont crimp connector
Heat shrink tip protectors for tools
Heat shrink tweezers modification
Holes, safely drill holes in sheet metal
Hotplate soldering
Hotplate, mini hotplate
How to mount components to thick wooden boards #1
How to mount components to thick wooden boards #2
Hot air soldering work surface
Inputs and outputs on the same pin #1
Inputs and outputs on the same pin #2
Inputs and outputs on the same pin #3
Inputs and outputs on the same pin #4
Inputs and outputs on the same pin #5
Inputs and outputs on the same pin #6
Infinity mirror stuff
Label for Arduino chips 328 and 1284
Logic gates, one and two per SMD package
Logic single and dual LVC gates.
Logic gates for scope probe buffering
Logic level MOSFETs PDF
Logic Probe/Pulser DIY
Machine pin DIY removable connectors
Making a test jig
Magnifier
Magnetic Tool Storage
MOSFETs logic level PDF
Motherboard
Mounting blind hole mounting of PCBs in chassis,
Mounting components in your enclosure
Mounting PCBs in chassis with no mounting holes #1
Mounting PCBs in chassis with no mounting holes #2
Mounting PCBs in chassis with no mounting holes #3
Mounting PCBs in chassis with no mounting holes #4
Mounting switches on a wooden panel
Motor mounting procedure
MT3608 remove potentiometer
NeoPixel replacement on a pixel strip
Nut Starter, new version
Nut starter magazine
Nut starter
Oscilloscope tool, CMOS Logic gate for scope probe buffering
Oscilloscope breadboard connections
Oscilloscope Octopus component test jig
Para Cord (nylon) for cable casing
PCB castellated daughter card, converting to
PCB cleaning
PCB DIY circuit board holder
PCB avoiding ground plane trace problems
PCB mounting
PCB LED 8 X breadboard helper
PCB drilling corner holes
PCB price comparison
PCB holder
PCB prototyping on copper clad material with diamond core #1
PCB prototyping on copper clad material with diamond core #2
PCB prototyping on copper clad material with diamond core #3
PCB prototyping on copper clad material with diamond core #4
PCB prototyping on copper clad material with diamond core #5
PCB prototyping on copper clad material #1
PCB prototyping on copper clad material #2
PCB prototyping on copper clad material #3
PCB prototyping on copper clad material #4
PCB prototyping on copper clad material #5
PCB prototype board test jig
PDF annotation on iPad
Pin Vise
Pinch clamp summary
Polarity tester
Potentiometer replacement with SMD resistors #1
Programmer not responding
Potentiometer replacement with SMD resistors #2
Project build guidelines
Projects an example of a simple project, ‘Useless Box’
Project front panel, bezel, process
Project box with plastic bezel
Project boxes, made from flat plastic material #1
Project boxes, made from flat plastic material #2
Project boxes, motherboard brass inserts 1
Project boxes, motherboard brass inserts 2
Project boxes, motherboard brass inserts 3
Project case mother board
Project case mother board #2
Project construction example and hints #1
Project construction example and hints #2
Project Feet for mounting PCBs
Protect Arduino pins when bread boarding
Prototyping a circuit on a PCB
Prototype test Jig
Prototyping wire connections, Shellac and Kynar insulated
Prototyping Board Construction 2 PDFs
Sandpaper idea
Schematics, different schematics to refer to.
Screw head filing
Screw cutting to the required length
Screw Starter new version.
Screw starter aid 1
Screw starter aid 2
Screw starter aid 3
Short circuit detection
Silicone putty
Silver soldering, jig for joining a stainless steel screw and rod
Silver soldering ceramic surface
Sketchup 3D program for designing projects
SMD breadboard helpers #1
SMD breadboard helpers #2
SMD breadboard helpers #3
SMD component pickup ideas
SMD, convert THD components to SMD form factor
SMD desoldering spatulas
SMD desoldering brass spatula technique
SMD desoldering DIY tip
SMD desoldering tool from aluminum can (‘Desoldering Spatula’)
SMD to DIP
SMD to DIP and SIP PCBs
SMD to SIP PCB, SOT23, add a 10k to one side, a MOSFET to the other
SMD I.C. removal with Olfa chisel knife
SMD I.C. removal the a spatula
SMD I.C. component removal
SMD LED module on a machine header DIY
SMD switch module on machine pin header DIY
SMD single gate chips
SMD Single Gate chips I often use.
SMD hold-down tool
SMD precise alignment soldering
SMD reference data
SMD and small parts storage
SMD micro soldering.
SMD soldering, limit the amount of solder added to a pad
SMD soldering, flatten solder ahead of time.
SMD soldering, using solder wick as a solder wave carrier #1
SMD soldering, using solder wick as a solder wave carrier #2
SMD soldering, precise component placement
SMD Testing, and the Magnetic Hold Down Clamp
SMD Turning Plate #1
SMD Turning Plate #2
SMD vacuum pick up tool
Soldering 3rd hand #1
Soldering 3rd hand #2
Soldering 3rd hand #3
Soldering 3rd hand #4
Soldering 3rd hand #5
Soldering anti static wrist strap
Soldering Castellated components by hand
Soldering compression tool for THT components #1
Soldering compression tool for THT components #2
Soldering ESP32 castellated module
Soldering flux applicator refilling
Soldering fume extraction
Soldering fume fan
Soldering headers to PCBs, DIY tool
Soldering iron recovery time modification FX-888D
Soldering iron, check temperature
Soldering lift platform
Solder, flatten solder to achieve more controlled application
Solder, flatten solder ahead of time with a roller.
Solder paste, how much to use
Solder paste SMD REFLOW syringe
Solder paste syringe
Solder paste syringe filling
Solder paste syringe dispenser #1
Solder paste syringe dispenser #2
Solder paste syringe storage
Solder paste syringe removing air from
Solder Paste Tool DIY
Solder pot
Soldering iron gull wing soldering tip
Soldering Magnetic Hold Down Clamp SMD method.
Soldering surface #1
Soldering surface #2
Solder Wick used with hot air
Solder Wick solder wave process
Solder Wick, making it more effective
Soldering wires to switches and PCBs, hints
Solderless Breadboard component mounting
Software code folding in the Arduino IDE
Spring vise modification
Spring vise backer board
Stainless steel soldering
Stand Off conversion
Standoffs from male headers
Storage for small parts
Storage
Storage shelves for your work station
Strain relief #1
Strain relief #2
Strain relief #3
Strain relief #4
Test Jig, instructions to make a test jig
Test clips
Test lead tip protectors
Testing using a powered PCB using magnetic hold down clamps
Timing Arduino code execution with a logic analyzer
Tool bucket for solder tools
Tools 3rd hand
Tools 3D platform 1
Tools 3D platform 2
Tools 3D platform 3
Tools Anti tip container
Tools articulating arm for your workbench #1
Tools articulating arm for your workbench #2
Tools Bench Bench grinder, making equal length parts #1
Tools Bench Block
Tools bench grinder, making equal length parts #2
Tools Benchmate mounting plate
Tools BenchMate workbench mounting plate 1
Tools BenchMate workbench mounting plate 2
Tools BenchMate workbench mounting plate 3
Tools bolt/screw cutting 1
Tools bolt/screw cutting 2
Tools bolt/screw cutting 3
Tools Circuit Board Holder DIY
Tools counter sinks & prototyping PCB
Tools digital calipers 1
Tools digital calipers 2
Tools digital calipers 3
Tools drill press cutting sled 1
Tools drill press cutting sled 2
Tools drill press jointer 1
Tools drill press jointer 2
Tools Foredom tool
Tools logic probe DIY
Tools heat sealer
Tools holding small parts
Tools Hotplate, MHP30
Tools hot plate, adding a hot air wand to
Tools hot plate sled cooling
Tools hot plate sled, how to make
Tools magnetic cup prevents spills, and holding hardware
Tools Magnetic Tool Storage
Tools magnetic stand
Tools magnet tool storage
Tools, mounting method for tools, motors etc.
Tools, Plier and Wrench, Knipex 5" and 7"
Tools, Pliers and Wrench Knipex with elastic band
Tools razor saw
Tools Solder Paste Dispensing Tool
Tools sorting tray
Tools Spring vise #1
Tools Spring vise #2
Tools Spring vise #3
Tools Spring vise #4
Tools Spring vise #5
Tools spring vise modification
Tools spudgersr
Tools sticky pad bottle tipping protection
Tools storage in eye glass cases
Tools storage, using zippered pouches
Tool tip protection
Tool tree
Tool Tree, new location
Tools Thermo-Loc
Tools workbench hammering surface
Tools Vertical vise using Knipex pliers
Troubleshooting Arduino projects with an oscilloscope #1
Troubleshooting Arduino projects with an oscilloscope #2
Turning plate for SMDs
Tweezer fence storage
Tweezers Flush Hold for SMDs
Tweezers #3, summary information
Tweezers, My Soldering Tweezers Broke
Tweezers reverse action
Tweezers make screw holding tweezers
Tweezers, self closing tweezers on a magnetic stand
Tweezers add a sleeve to keep closed
Ultrasonic Cleaning of PCBs
Ultrasonic Distance Reflector Jig
USB connector
USB flash light
USB making a cable
UV glue for temporary component holding
Videos on advanced electronic topics
Wire bending tool for the solderless breadboard
Wire making short lengths
Wire permanent connections to PCBs
Wire cutting small lengths 1
Wire cutting small lengths 2
Wire solderless breadboard Dupont crimp connector heat shrink
Wire splicing
Wire splicing 18 to 22/24 AWG
Wire splicing #2
Wire storage for breadboard wires
Wire, wire storage Idea #1
Wire Storage Idea #2
Wires, twisting #1
Wires twisting #2
Wrenches
Workbench compressed air in a can
Workbench magnetic light 1
Workbench magnetic light 2
Workbench magnetic eye protection 1
Workbench magnetic eye protection 2
Workbench air filtering soldering fumes
Workbench antistatic work station #1
Workbench antistatic work station #2
Workbench hammering surface
Workbench work surface
Work surface for magnetic tools
Y Cable moisture proof wire connection
Y cable #1
Y connections
Y connection, soldering a wire connection
Y connection cable manufacturing
Y connection, NO, it is an H wire cable
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