While most commercial and industrial SMD stencils are made out of laser cut stainless steel, [Peter] figured out a piece of plastic and a $300 craft cutter is equally well suited for the job.

Download this stencil and follow these directions: White – don’t cut, Grey/Dots – remove pumpkin skin without cutting, Black – cut out. Here’s one of the few Minerva McGonagall pumpkin ...

Stencil machines cut or print fonts and symbols on materials and substrates. They are used to create stencils for marking applications or to print stencils for SMT applications. Marking equipment is ...

It’s not exactly trivial to cut them out by hand. [Juan] recently learned a new trick to make cutting solder stencils a less painful process. He uses a laser cutter to cut Mylar sheets into ...