Bob Pease is big on hands-on engineering. He says, “A soldering iron is my Spice”. This is similar to a comment I heard in my consulting days: “An ounce of trial is better than a pound of opinion.” ...

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 ...

Efficient processes are needed to build a circuit board. Five students in Duane Beck’s manufacturing engineering technology senior design class developed prototype equipment to improve an inspection ...

On Monday (February 10th), Waterloo, Canada-based Voltera launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $70,000 for its new self-titled protyping machine. Within only 35 minutes of its ...

The always-great Jon Titus has a nice article in ECN magazine about circuit board mills. I mentioned these machines in my recent cover story about prototyping, but I did not go into the detail Jon ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today launched the RL78/G14 Fast Prototyping Board – a low-cost, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every few months some new gadget comes along that’s faster, offers better battery life, or finds another way to make the phone, tablet, or PC sitting on your desk look boring. While it’s pretty nifty ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This Ethernet board is a prototype ...