German laser specialist LPKF has developed and patented a plastic that can survive reflow soldering and which can act as a single-layer PCB. The company's polyimide material is impregnated with a ...

Ordering a PCB? Two of them? Three? Five? For about eight years now, I’ve been regularly ordering large numbers of different PCBs, and, naturally, have developed a toolkit to make things smoother. One ...

Once a printed circuit board (PCB) has been assembled it’s rather hard to look inside of it, which can be problematic when you have e.g. a multilayer PCB of an (old) system that you really would like ...

What’s the right PCB to implement for your device? One must weigh various factors, including layer structure, materials used such as copper-clad laminate, and, of course, circuit layout. What are ...

Every switch-mode power supply presents a wide-band noise source. Integrating a DC/DC converter from the car board net into an automotive control unit and still fulfilling the EMC requirements of ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts may be interested in a new minimal Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 carrier board created by Hackaday member Prof. Fartsparkle. The carrier features HDMI, USB-A and USB-C ports, ...