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 ...

MacroFab, a platform to help hardware startups prototype and manufacture PCB boards, has raised a $2 million seed round led by Techstars Ventures. Any company that has worked with manufacturers to ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three-dimensional printing of printed circuit boards (PCBs) allows designers and engineers to test out ideas before committing to expensive tooling and manufacturing. Because they rapidly and ...

There is no one best fab house. It depends what you need and the kind of boards you are making. For a one-off hobby or test project, maybe OSH Park is best. For high-tech boards, Sierra Proto Express ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series Founders Edition GPUs reveal a design evolution from a quad-slot, triple-fan RTX 4090 Ti prototype. The prototype, featuring a rotated PCB and dual 16-pin power ...

So you have a hot new hardware device that you’d like to develop and sell? Well, your first step is to create a working prototype. But where should you begin? There is no doubt that developing ...

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 ...