No, wait.  That’s not right.  I meant to say Simple SparkFun Simon Mod!
In this busy holiday season, it’s rare that we get the time to even write an article let alone build a kit.  But this kit is such good clean fun we had to do both!  Across our desk slid the diminutive red box […]

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 […]