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[Carl Bugeja] finds the engineering behind the Las Vegas Sphere fascinating, and made a video all about the experience of designing and building a micro-sized desktop version. [Carl]’s version is …read more Continue reading How to Cram 945 LEDs into a Teeny Tiny Vegas-Style Sphere
If you want something as personal as a keyboard done right, you have to do it yourself. Not quite satisfied with the multitude of mechanical offerings out there, [summific] decided …read more Continue reading We’d Sure Like to Strum the Chrumm Keyboard
Flexible PCBs have become increasingly common in both commercial devices and DIY projects, but Panasonic’s new stretchable, clear substrate for electrical circuits called Beyolex takes things a step further. The …read more Continue reading Truly Flexible Circuits Are a Bit of a Stretch
[Moritz v. Sivers] has a knack for making his own displays, which are typically based on some obscure physical effect. Magnetic viewing films, those thin plastic sheets that change color …read more Continue reading Moving Magnet Draws Stylish Shapes On Flexible Film
Printed circuit boards can be square, round, octagonal, or whatever shape you desire. But there’s little choice when it comes to the third dimension: most PCBs are flat and rigid. …read more Continue reading Clever Design Technique Makes Flexible PCB Fit for a Queen
It’s not often we feel that something we’re featuring is a genuinely new and groundbreaking technique, but a team from the University of Maryland’s Small Artifacts Lab may have done …read more Continue reading Fiber Laser Your Way To Flexible PCB Success!
Moving air with spinning blades is the most popular way, but it is not the only way. Using the PCB actuator technology he has been working on for the past …read more Continue reading Flapping PCB Fan Blows A Little Bit
We’ve noticed that [Carl Bugeja] likes flexible PCBs. His latest exploit is to make PCB-based springs that combine with some magnets to create little devices that jump. We aren’t sure …read more Continue reading When [Carl] Says Jump, PCBs say “How High?”
[Carl] is always looking at making heater plates for PCB reflow and other applications. In his latest video, he shows how he is using thin flexible PCBs with adhesive backs …read more Continue reading Sticker Brings the Heat
USB connectors have lent themselves to creative interpretations of their mechanical specifications ever since the first experimenter made a PCB fit into a USB-A socket. The USB-C standard with its …read more Continue reading Genius or Cursed, This USB-C Connector Is Flexible