This blog is Part 4 in a series that initiates designing prototype circuits from home. Developing Prototype Circuits from Home: Part 1, Introduction introduced the concept whereas Developing Prototype ...

This blog is Part 3 in a series that initiates designing prototype circuits from home. Part 1 [1] introduced the concept whereas Part 2 [2] addressed schematic capture (using National Instrument's ...

There you are at the surplus store, staring into the bin of faded orange, yellow, red, and black, boxes–a treasure trove of vintage vacuum tubes—dreaming about building a tube amp for your guitar or a ...

The coveted 2015 James Dyson Award for innovative engineering has been snagged by four Canadian graduate students for a prototype circuit board printer dubbed the Voltera V-One. The brainchild of ...

Chances are you haven’t heard of Tempo Automation, a startup located in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, but it’s caught the eye of investors for its approach to low-volume electronics assembly ...

Prototron Circuits Southwest Inc. started out humble, at least in Tucson. Parent company Prototron Circuits of Redmond, Wash., was doing work for big-name companies in the Seattle area including ...

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 ...

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 ...

Silicon Quantum Computing Pty. Ltd. (SQC) is working to create and commercialize a quantum computer based on world-leading intellectual property acquired from the Australian Centre of Excellence for ...