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Back in 2010, Bob Pease sent me a couple pictures of some prototype printed circuit boards (PCBs) he had made in the early 1960s. Pease got to be a great analog engineer because he would hack away at ...
I just got an email from Gail Balderas at Royal Circuits about their prototype PCB services. They are running a holiday special we can all appreciate: five 2-sided boards for $150 and that on a 3-day ...
Every year, the world throws away about 62 million metric tons of electronic waste. Despite the valuable metals in ...
Download the codes here Arduino simple shield potentiometer code: Arduino shield rc car: Arduino nano module L298P code: Board project: In this project you'll see how simple it is to make an rc car ...
Grinding out copper is one way to create a printed circuit board, and low-cost CNC milling machines have improved to the point where it’s possible for many. How milling machines can be used to create ...
Component distributor Anglia Components is now stocking PCB prototyping aids and accessories from UK company Vero Technologies for UK and EU customers.
These are tough times for American hackers, and rife with uncertainty. Trade wars are on, off, on again– who can keep track? If you’re used to getting everything from China, that can really cramp your ...
If you spend your time creating prototype PCB boards all small production runs you may be interested in a new open source manual PCB pick-and-place machine specifically created for “PCB artisans” say ...
Few things have had the impact on electronics that printed circuit boards (PCBs) have had. Cheap consumer electronics would not be as cheap if someone still had to wire everything (although by now ...
“The off-site PCB prototyping process has many downsides,” says Fried. “It’s expensive, it’s time consuming and it puts intellectual property at risk. However, I believe that our survey reflects a ...