If you have held yourself back on certain ideas because you knew you couldn’t do it on a breadboard then wait no more! Now there’s no excuse not to make your own electronics project. This is the second part of the “How to Design the Perfect PCB” series discusses all of the details necessary to take your plans from schematic to manufacture.
Check out this guide for designing a custom PCB.
Who knew an old breakfast machine could be converted into a tool for creating printed circuit boards? We’ve covered many different ways of creating PCBs, including the toner transfer method. With this method, you use a laser printer to print your circuit pattern onto glossy paper or special toner transfer paper. The toner is then […]
Andrew Rossignol wanted to make a desk ornament, and inspired by Charles Lohr video on making a glass PCBs, he decided to do just that. But not having access to the tools he needed to etch his own PCBs at home, he took a different approach, one that would let him use parts he found at a local craft store.
I love this — a laser cutter just powerful enough to cut vinyl, but that’s great for creating your own PCBs. Are you sick and tired of using a tooth pick to apply solder paste? Are you still using through hole components because you don’t want to deal with soldering surface mount devices (SMD)? If […]
Colombian maker Ampletos shows how to screen print PCBs (Google translated from Spanish) using a normal screen printing setup. [via Hacked Gadgets]
Built for an e-waste design competition, Istanbul-based designer Yasemin Artut made these “E-letter” signs for Kadir Has University.
