I spend a good portion of my time meeting with companies in the EOEM (electronics-original-equipment-manufacturing) market, and most of those meetings are with semiconductor vendors due to the vast ...

Many PCB manufacturers refrain from launching their products on Kickstarter due to the complexities involved. The traditional PCB developers require a minimal order of a few thousand to start the ...

Walking around the alley at Hackaday Supercon 2024, we noticed an interesting project was getting quite a bit of attention, so we got nearer for a close-up. The ‘Circuit Graver’ by [Zach Fredin] is an ...

At the heart of all modern electronics lies the Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA), a critical process that entails the mounting of various electronic components — resistors, capacitors, and ...

Traditionally, PCB prototypes were hand-assembled by technicians, which offered flexibility for unique or experimental designs. However, manual assembly is slow, prone to human error, and not suitable ...

Prototyping is a necessary step in your production process. To prototype is to create a sample of your product that you will be showing to your investors, board members or to simply test the ...

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 ...

How milling machines can be used to create simple PCBs. Challenges of using low-cost solutions. Higher-end alternatives. One challenge with focusing on the latest high-tech solutions is that with so ...

Price – if software is not affordable or justifiable, the product is immediately eliminated. However, there are very sophisticated and full-featured products offered at no cost by some vendors. Ease ...

PCBPit, led by Alex Pan, expands PCB services, excels in complex designs, ensures quick turnaround and stringent quality checks, while being RoHS compliant. For businesses of all sizes seeking PCB ...