For a lot of reasons, home etching of PCBs is somewhat of a dying art. The main reason is the rise of quick-turn PCB fabrication services, of course; when you can send your Gerbers off and receive ...

Reading socket sizes can be an exercise in frustration and steel hand tools are often terribly labeled—save for the brand name that is usually quite prominent. You can solve this problem by metal ...

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(Phys.org)—University of Illinois researchers have a new low-cost method to carve delicate features onto semiconductor wafers using light – and watch as it happens. "You can use light to image the ...

In the previous part of the series, we covered the photolithography, or “photo,” process in which circuit patterns were drawn on the wafer surface. Now, the wafer is ready go through the etching ...

Right now you can get a custom circuit board delivered to your door in about a week for just a few dollars. There’s little reason to make your own circuit boards at home anymore, but when you need a ...

Microelectronics like semiconductor devices are at the heart of the technologies we use each day. As we move into an era where we are stretching the limits of Moore's Law, it is essential to find new ...