Imagine having a surface mount kit that you’d like to stencil with solder paste and reflow solder, but which doesn’t come with a solder stencil. That was what faced [Honghong Lu], and she rose to the ...

Prototyping your own PCBs? At a loss for how to apply your SMT electronics? Well — do you have access to a laser? [Felix] shows us a definitive way to use a laser cutter to engrave SMT stencils with ...

1 Copy the template in the desired size and colour in the sections you want to cut away so you don’t cut out the wrong areas by mistake. 2 Stick the piece of paper with the coloured-in template to ...

Asophisticated, serious friend recently slipped over the edge: She decorated her bathroom with stencils. It was fun, she said -- as much fun as she remembered from kindergarten, laying the cut-out ...

Staring at four walls can get boring — especially when they are non-descript. That’s why, one day in 1986, Jessie Sessions of Ellicott City decided to perk up her kitchen. With a little help from her ...

Stencil cut may not be recognised as a specialised art form, but here is a young woman who has excelled at making portraits, sceneries and even mythological episodes that have won her awards. With her ...