Making a circuit board from scratch sounds simple until you try it. Designing clean traces and avoiding short circuits takes ...

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Engineers can now build spacecraft electronics that are intrinsically radiation-tolerant, significantly reducing launch weight.

IIT Gandhinagar is set to revolutionise classrooms at an early age. The toolkit it is preparing could change how India ...

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Researchers from University of Glasgow claim compostable circuit boards 'perform comparatively' with traditional boards and could slash levels of e-waste Researchers from the University of Glasgow ...

“Right now, DoD customers and federal [contractors] often wait 28 weeks or more for a prototype printed circuit board,” says Ramsdell. “They get a batch of 10, and only one or two might work. By the ...

For busy electrical engineers, having the right information to do a project is important. At the same time, understanding current industry trends, such as changes in design techniques or underlying ...

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 ...

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