Your plant has several custom-built production machines that use various plug-in circuit boards. The standard practice has been to troubleshoot to the board level and then replace the entire board.

It can be a real drag to fix a circuit board which has stopped working as intended, especially if you don’t have any reference material for the product. That’s the position that [Todd Harrison] found ...

Circuit boards are traditionally built with thermosets, such as silicone or epoxy resins, a type of plastic that becomes permanently rigid and hard after being heat cured. But vitrimer can be altered ...

Researchers 3D print circuit board that can be dissolved in water. DissolvPCB can be created using a standard FDM system, PVA ...

Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Apple quietly announced the launch of a free repair program for the ...

It’s not uncommon in cheaper devices to find a ribbon cable soldered directly to the circuit board like the one pictured above. Using a connector would have been a much more resilient approach, but ...

Genius ideas usually are so simple you start to wonder after seeing them: Why did no one think about this before? This is precisely what we felt after seeing what Infinitum Electric has created: a ...