A History of Copper Pours
If you compare a modern PCB with a typical 1980s PCB, you might notice — like [lcamtuf] did — that newer boards tend to have large areas of copper known …read more Continue reading A History of Copper Pours
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If you compare a modern PCB with a typical 1980s PCB, you might notice — like [lcamtuf] did — that newer boards tend to have large areas of copper known …read more Continue reading A History of Copper Pours
Those of us familiar with PCB work would agree that anything that helps hold probes secure and hands-free to components, traces, or test points is worth looking at. That’s where …read more Continue reading DIY Probe Clamps to Ease Your PCB Work
For better or worse it seems to be human nature to compete with one another, as individuals or teams, rather than experience contentedness while moving to the woods and admiring …read more Continue reading Smallest USB Device… So Far
Sometimes it’s the simplest hacks that make the biggest impact. Take these DIY magnetic PCB vises for example. Sure, you can go out and buy purpose-built tools, but [Dylan Radcliffe] …read more Continue reading Simple Hardware Store Hack Keeps Your PCBs Right Where You Want Them
From a practical standpoint, [John] may be correct that his recent creation is the “world’s worst digital dash”, but we’re still oddly enamored with the idea of using a Nintendo …read more Continue reading A Game Boy Speedometer, Just Because You Can
For one-off projects, adding a few integrated circuits to a PCB is not too big of a deal. The price of transistors is extremely low thanks to Moore and his …read more Continue reading Bit-Banging the USB-PD Protocol
For a lot of us, soldering just seems to come naturally. But if we’re being honest, none of us was born with a soldering iron in our hand — ouch! …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Soldering the Tek Way
Normally, you have a choice with PCB prototypes: fast or cheap. [Stephen Hawes] has been trying fiber lasers to create PCBs. He’s learned a lot which he shares in the …read more Continue reading Perfecting 20 Minute PCBs with Laser
Can you use brake cleaner for flux removal on PCBs? According to [Half Burnt Toast], yes you can. But should you? Well, that’s another matter. In our experience, flux removal …read more Continue reading Blast Away the Flux — With Brake Cleaner?
Each Christmas, [Adam Anderson], [Daniel Quach], and [Johan Wheeler] (meanwhile going by ‘the Janky Jingle Crew’)—set themselves the challenge of outdoing their previous creations. Last year’s CH32 Fireplace brought an …read more Continue reading Rudolph’s Sleigh on a North Pole PCB