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We have all seen Printed Circuit Board (PCB) antennas: those squiggly bits of traces on PCBs connected often to a Bluetooth, WiFi or other wireless communication chip. On modules like …read more Continue reading The Many Ways You Can Easily Ruin Your PCB Antenna Design
The Ball Grid Array, or BGA package is no longer the exclusive preserve of large, complex chips on computer motherboards: today even simple microcontrollers are available with those little solder …read more Continue reading Working with BGAs: Design and Layout
Thanks to the relatively recent rise of affordable board production services, many of the people reading Hackaday are just now learning the ropes of PCB design. For those still producing …read more Continue reading PCB Thermal Design Hack Gets Hot and Heavy
“LEDs improve everything.” Words to live by. Most everything that Debra Ansell of [GeekMomProjects] makes is bright, bold, and blinky. But if you’re looking for a simple string of WS2812s, …read more Continue reading Remoticon 2021 // Debra Ansell Connects PCB in Ways You Didn’t Expect
In a recent retrospective video, [Phil] from Phil’s Lab goes through a number of his early PCB designs, to critique and comment on what he likes and doesn’t like in …read more Continue reading The Benefits Of Critiquing Your Own PCB Designs
We found a couple of headlines this week that seemed pretty alarming at first, mentioning as they did both “Chinese grannies” and “stun guns.” Digging a little deeper, it appears …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 17, 2021
It’s one thing to speculate about what’s happening with the Mars helicopter Ingenuity, but it’s another to get an insider’s view on recent flight problems. As we previously reported, Ingenuity …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 3, 2021
Well, this hack has us tickled pink. We love the idea of buying some really cheap piece of technology and doing something amazing with it, and this is a textbook …read more Continue reading Living the Dream: New PCB for a Dirt-Cheap Calculator Watch
One of the things that makers sometimes skip over is the design of the project that they’re creating. Some of us don’t do any design at all, we just pants …read more Continue reading Design an Electronic Catan Board in a Day
Preferring to spend hours typing code instead of graphically pushing traces around in a PCB layout tool, [James Bowman] over at ExCamera Labs has developed CuFlow, a method for routing …read more Continue reading Wires vs Words — PCB Routing in Python