We had originally intended for this article to be a scathing review of the TOP2005 programmer, one of chose cheap USB EEPROM programmers that are coming out of China these days.  We bought one a while back and it was fine for standard 27C64 eproms and the like, but totally sucked when trying to read […]

If you’ve read the first part of this series, you already know how to remove an IC from a printed circuit board.  Specifically, the IC we removed in our example is an EEPROM used as a BIOS, so we will need to replace it in order to get the device to function again.
We don’t want […]

Hey, if you came from a direct link, be sure to check out part 2: Installing a Socket on this PCB
Since it’s a Friday and we’re all taking it easy for a change, we’ll take this time to talk a little bit about using an off-the-shelf heatgun to work with SMT devices.  I know […]