Although DIY PCB making has made great strides since the early days of chemical etching, there’s one fly in the ointment: vias. These connect individual layers of the board with a conductive tube, and ...

Over the past decade, desktop CNC machines and other digital fabrication tools have quietly transformed the way people create ...

With the low-cost PCB fabrication services available to hackers and makers these days, we’ll admit that making your own boards at home doesn’t hold quite the appeal that it did in the past. But even ...

In PCB design, design for manufacturing (DfM) is all about correcting mistakes after reviewing a PCB layout. We then devise corrective actions to fix those mistakes and improve procedures to make ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a tangle of wires, wishing there was an easier way to bring your electronics project to life? If you’ve dabbled in DIY electronics, you know that creating ...

Designing and producing your own circuit board can be daunting to say the least. Most of us turn to tried and true processes to get them made. Just soldering up perf boards and shopping out PCB ...

The Z1’s user experience optimization tools offer a comprehensive upgrade for the interaction and UI design on both desktop ...