Month: March 2011

  • Vertigo for goats

    Vertigo for goats

    In our never-ending series about vertigo and where people don’t want to go (and go anyway), here is a case of where people cannot go without tools and where goats will go anyway.

  • Reliability of lead-free soldering

    Reliability of lead-free soldering

    For those of you who asked for more details about the reliability of lead-free soldering (see the end of my previous titled “Manufacturing of electronic boards“, I have found an interesting and useful analysis from Numonyx (now Micron Semiconductors). Lead-free and leaded package soldering compatibility – Backward and forward compatibility This white paper explores the…

  • Server maintenance

    Over the next two days, the web site may see some perturbation. We are changing the server in order to avoid a possible risk of disk failure and to bring some needed additional performance. We will try our best to ensure that this will be as invisible as possible, buy I apologize in advance for…

  • Manufacturing color crayons

    In our series of videos about how things are manufactured, here comes a colorful one: Crayons.