HOWTOs and FAQs for Portable Media Player Do-It-YourSelf Repairing, Upgrading and Modding

Chipset, Pinout, Connector and Electric Circuit Specifications, Manuals

• Zytrax: specifications for almost all electronic devices and accessories.
• Lessons In Electric Circuits A free series of textbooks on the subjects of electricity and electronics.
• The Hardware Book - Internet's largest free collection of connector pinouts and cable descriptions.
• LED-Museum
• Handbook of hardware pinouts, cables schemes, connectors layouts for computers, cell phones and other devices.
• Electrical Engineering Circuits Archive
• AllPinOuts: A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs
• AllManuals: Free manuals for computer and peripheral devices in PDF format

Surface Mounted Devices - SMD Soldering

• Surface Mount Technology SMD: A beginner's guide, which includes soldering instructions.
• Surface mounting with hand-soldering tools
• SMD Soldering Tutorial: This tutorial will show you just how to solder crazy things like this connector, leadless ICs, etc. There are a very few tools that are required and a handful that are recommended but you'll be able to solder: * SOT23 * TQFP * QFN * Even BGA! * And all the others!
• SMD Hand Soldering Guide: The purpose of this guide is to introduce SMD (Surface Mount Device) hand soldering. The guide is organized into different methods. Each method is used specifically for a group of SMD components. A simplified list is included with each method to identify which types of SMD components are for the appropriate method.