This blog is Part 3 in a series that initiates designing prototype circuits from home. Part 1 [1] introduced the concept whereas Part 2 [2] addressed schematic capture (using National Instrument's ...

This blog is Part 4 in a series that initiates designing prototype circuits from home. Developing Prototype Circuits from Home: Part 1, Introduction introduced the concept whereas Developing Prototype ...

There you are at the surplus store, staring into the bin of faded orange, yellow, red, and black, boxes–a treasure trove of vintage vacuum tubes—dreaming about building a tube amp for your guitar or a ...

Developers and makers that enjoy building electronic circuits and boards may be interested in a new circuit board prototyping machine called the Voltera V-One. The Voltera V-One has been specifically ...

In designing and prototyping electronic circuit boards there is no quick or simple way to produce results. Many hours of design and development need to be expended on prototype layouts along with ...

SchmartBoard has announced that patent 7,511,228 has been granted for the company’s “EZ” technology for hand-soldering surface-mount technology (SMT) electronic components (see the figure). This ...

Digging through boxes of the prototype circuits that Bob Pease had amassed over the years proved to be a fun time for all involved. 1. Texas Instruments application engineer Paul Grohe holds up an ...

A new rapid prototyping machine has been launched on the Kickstarter crowdfunding website this week in the form of the Ex1 PCB 3D Printer which is being created to help developers rapidly test and ...

Prototron Circuits Southwest Inc. started out humble, at least in Tucson. Parent company Prototron Circuits of Redmond, Wash., was doing work for big-name companies in the Seattle area including ...

One of the biggest bottlenecks in any project involving custom circuitry is troubleshooting the actual circuit itself before moving to manufacturing something permanent. A new project on Kickstarter ...