If you are soldering with paste, a stencil makes life a lot easier. Sure, you can apply paste by hand with a syringe, but a modern PCB might have hundreds or even thousands of pads. Like a lot of us, ...

For many a hacker, stenciling a board for the first time is a game-changing experience – the solder joints you get, sure do give your PCB the aura of a mass-manufactured device. Now, you might not get ...

The cutesu 3D stencils that come with Visio 2003 are pretty but useless. I like to use stencils that look like actual equipment. I got the IBM, Cisco and HP stencils from here: And I also need some ...