PCB Assembly 101
Ever wondered how PCBs are manufactured? Zach Smith, a co-founder of MakerBot Industries, posted a fascinating article on Haxlr8r explaining what it’s all about.
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Build a Bright, Low-Power Little Big Lamp This Weekend
Little Big Lamp has been updated to take advantage of modern LED technology.
Maker Faire New York: Using Microbes to Etch PCBs
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is a gram-negative bacterium that lives, in the natural world, in iron sulfide (aka “pyrite,” aka “fool’s gold) deposits, where it eats iron and sulfur and excretes sulfuric acid. Now, a team of graduates, undergraduates, and post-docs at New York’s Columbia and Cooper Union universities is working to develop a genetically-modified strain of A. ferrooxidans…
Where Arduinos are Born: Touring a PCB Factory
Bunnie Huang recently toured the Arduino production facilities and wrote a great post about what he saw (with lots of photos!): Arduinos are made in Scarmagno, Italy, a small town near the Olivetti factories on the outskirts of Torino. All of the circuit board fabrication, board stuffing and distribution is handled out of that small […]
How-To: Design Arduino Shields in Eagle
The site Open Electronics recently posted a step-by-step guide to using the EAGLE PCB design software to make your own custom Arduino Shields.
Converting An Inkjet Printer To Print PCBs
Proof that no piece of technology is ever truly outdated, maker Ryan Pourcillie has converted an Epson C86 inkjet printer to print PCBs onto copper clad boards positioned on a modified metal print tray. Armed with a Dremel, and making many clever modifications to the printer chassis, his printer has been converted to print using […]
Fritzing Fab: Turn Your Fritzing Sketches into PCBs
You can now go to fab.fritzing.org and order a PCB directly from your Fritzing sketch. (Just use your Fritzing.org account to log in.)
