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 ...

Board eliminates the need for custom or BGA-socket-equipped prototyping boards Part of the SchmartBoard|ez pc-board line, a hand-solderable BGA prototyping board is billed as the industry's first.

One of my favourite things to do on a cold winter night is to heat up my soldering iron and sit down at my workbench for an hour of circuit board building. Unfortunately, many of the development ...

Much has been written about the advantages for various types of mounting component methods for large scale production and final applications as reflected in the References for this blog. However, ...

It’s been a while since we’ve had a fresh How-To on the Hack-A-Day, and frankly we’ve missed them. To get things rolling, [Eliot] and I wanted to build a good knowledge base to help you hack your own ...

[Nick] over at Gadget Gangster has a new version of his prototyping hardware for Propeller microcontrollers, called the Propeller Platform USB. A little more than a year ago we looked at the last ...

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 ...

Electronic enthusiasts, makers, and hobbyists interested in quickly prototyping different electronic circuits and designs may be interested in new tiny form factor boards and sensors created by ...

The team of developers at BlackBox based in Copenhagen, Denmark have taken to Kickstarter this month to launch their new Raspberry Pi audio prototyping board called Kviky. Designed to provide an easy ...