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Printed circuit boards were once so simple. One or two layers of copper etched on a rectangular fiberglass substrate, with a few holes drilled in key locations so components could …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024: A New World of Full-Color PCBs
What if circuit boards could glow in the dark? It’s a fun question, and one [Botmatrix] sought to answer when approached by manufacturer PCBWay to run a project together. It …read more Continue reading Glow In The Dark PCBs Are Pretty Cool
[Mikey Sklar] had a problem—namely, running low on the brass material typically used for making PCB stencils. Thankfully, a replacement material was not hard to find. It turns out you …read more Continue reading Aluminum Business Cards Make Viable PCB Stencils
One of those useful things to have around on your bench is a decade resistance box, essentially a dial-a-resistance instrument. They used to be quite expensive in line with the …read more Continue reading A Decade Resistance Box From PCBs
One of those useful things to have around on your bench is a decade resistance box, essentially a dial-a-resistance instrument. They used to be quite expensive in line with the …read more Continue reading A Decade Resistance Box From PCBs
If you’ve ever fancied building a ZX Spectrum clone without hunting down ancient ULAs or soldering your way through 60+ chips, [Alex J. Lowry] has just dropped an exciting build. …read more Continue reading ZX Spectrum, Soviet Style: A 44-IC Clone You Can Build
Many of us use touch pads daily on our laptops, but rarely do we give much thought about what they really do. In fact they are a PCB matrix of …read more Continue reading Custom Touchpad PCBs Without The Pain
FR4 is FR4, right? For a lot of PCB designs, the answer is yes — the particular characteristics of the substrate material don’t impact your design in any major way. …read more Continue reading PCB Dielectric Constant Measurements, Three Ways
Do you do PCB design for a living? Has KiCad been just a tiny bit insufficient for your lightning-fast board routing demands? We’ve just been graced with the KiCad 9 …read more Continue reading KiCad 9 Moves Up In The Pro League
Today’s PCB design review is a board is from [Wificable]. iI’s a novel dual-SSD laptop adapter board! See, CPUs and chipsets often let you split wide PCIe links into multiple …read more Continue reading PCB Design Review: M.2 SSD Splitter