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 ...

The copper layers of a printed circuit board are the central focus of any circuit design, the other layers only support or protect the circuit, or simplify the assembly process. For starting PCB ...

As printed circuit board (PCB) designs become increasingly compact and complex, high-resolution photoplotting remains a critical technology in modern ...

The method of printing PCBs has not changed for decades. In the early days of imaging circuit boards a substrate (copper laminate) was screen printed with a liquid etch resist; this was then oven ...

Building your own printed circuit board is an invaluable skill set in the arsenal of any self-serious electronics hobbyist or “hands-on” entrepreneur; it does not require any special sort of wizardry ...

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 ...

Through precise control of the etching process, a researcher in Oxford University’s Photofabrication Unit has made the reliable production of high resolution printed circuit board (PCBs), with ...

There may be nothing new under the sun when it comes to etching PCBs with UV light, but [Heliosoph] has brought finer control to a used face tanner he bought that now exposes his boards in ~50 seconds ...