When it’s time to mass produce your PCBs, you’ll no doubt want to start working with SMCs — surface mount components — as a replacement for the through-hole components you’ve been using. The most effective way to solder SMCs to your PCB is through the use of a reflow oven.

Before any of that happens, though, you gotta get the solder paste on those tiny pads! Bob from SparkFun Electronics shows you how in this short tutorial video.