He was soldering an ARM CPU onto a quadcopter board ... Congress that [Carsten] credits with inspiring him to pick up the laser rather than attempt a risky desolder. The talk covers a range ...

Laser-assisted machining (LAM ... of semiconductors and ceramics and other brittle materials. The Micro-LAM apparatus and process developed by Dr. John Patten addresses many of the shortcomings of ...

They have even used the laser to melt solder paste and solder components ... useful structures such as their example of an all-PCB micro switch. To make things easy they’ve even created a ...