EEVblog #186 - Soldering Tutorial Part 3 - Surface Mount
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a good introduction to SMD soldering techniques for beginners.
What it is
Dave Jones of EEVblog shows hand soldering of surface-mount parts, including drag soldering and tack-and-reflow of 0.5mm fine-pitch ICs, with solder paste and hot air.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2012 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Recommends nrp · 2012-04 · on “Hand solderable 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 in TQFP package”
It's actually pretty simple to hand solder a TQFP by drag soldering. The key is to use plenty of flux and have solder braid handy to take care of any bridges. [this video] It's sort of a moot point with this Cortex A8 IC though, because the RAM it needs only exists in a BGA package.
Recommends Jugurtha · 2020-08 · on “Ask HN: Good resources for learning electronic curcuits and PCB design”
Meta : You can open an account at: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] These are forums with extremely helpful members. The format is different than Stack Overflow's "Question/Answer". It is built on the "Post/Thread". You can have threads that go on for 40 pages and span a year, when someone is doing a project, and these magnificent creatures will accompany the users with feedback. One thing I've done when starting to do PCB is submitting the design to electro-tech-online.com asking for feedback and how I could improve it. You'll have people there with decades of experience go through it, make actionable suggestions on the design stinks and why they're not good. You can also share a project you're doing a
Recommends foldr · 2020-10 · on “Baremetal programming on the tinyAVR 0 micro-controllers”
It's really not difficult to solder SMD components. See e.g. [this video] for a good introduction to the relevant techniques.