10 Top Tips for Working with Printed Circuit Boards
A few keys to successfully working with circuit boards.
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Marie Claire Pairs Stylized PCB Designs with Luxury Jewelry
Boldport collaborates with Marie Claire for a series of custom circuit boards designed around luxury jewelry.
First Look at the Prometheus Desktop PCB Mill
Zippy Robotics’ Prometheus mill brings rapid PCB prototyping to engineers and electronics enthusiasts at an affordable price.
Homemade X-Ray Inspector Reveals PCB Secrets
Hardware hacker John McMaster built his own x-ray machine in order to get a closer look at the details of printed circuit boards.
Check Out This Beautifully Quirky Nixie Tube Clock
This Maker details the challenging but rewarding process of building his own nixie tube timepiece.
48 Solenoids Transform This 1960s Typewriter into a Computer Printer
Several years ago, Chris Gregg, a Tufts University lecturer and computer engineer, received a letter from his friend Erica. This wouldn’t be so unusual, except that it was typed on an actual typewriter, not a printer. Gregg is a fan of vintage typewriters, but, as with myself, makes many mistakes, requiring a functioning backspace key. […]
Hardware Development: Spark Shows How to Make a Prototype PCB
Prototype 2 Production, a blog by the Spark team about bringing products to market, published the first of a three-part series this week on how to build a printed circuit board prototype. The guide, written by Spark’s head of supply chain Will Hart, walks readers through PCB fabrication specs, checking for design rule violations and generating layout files. Fabrication […]
