As we’ve seen with some recent posts on the subject here at Hackaday, there seems to be a growing schism within the community about the production of PCBs. Part of the community embraces (relatively) ...

SALINA, N.Y. --PCBs have been found in backyard soil of 19 homes here on Brookline Road, and Thursday a crew was collecting additional soil samples from the front yard of a home. The state Department ...

You might assume that you need a lot of expensive stuff to make your own PCBs, but that isn’t the case: you can do it with a vinyl cutter and a few common chemicals and tools. [Emiliano Valencia] has ...

Hand-made PCB boards are often thought of as “quick-and-dirty’ solutions, producing simple, yet functioning boards. Unfortunately, it can be extremely disappointing to spend a substantial amount of ...

Surface-mount technology (SMT) is evolving far beyond its roots as a way of assembling packaged chips onto printed circuit boards without through-holes. It is now moving inside packages that will ...

A team of researchers from the University of Maryland, Georgia Tech, and the University of Notre Dame created a new 3D printing method for building PCBs that use fully recyclable materials. According ...

A printed circuit board (PCB) mechanically supports and electrically connects electronic components using conductive tracks, pads and other features etched from copper sheets laminated onto a ...