So since I'm doing a bit more with making my own PCBs these days, I thought I'd start up a thread! For myself, I'm using KiCAD for design, and JLCPCB for making them. My current project is to take a ...

There are many, many video tutorials about designing the functional side of PCBs, giving you tips on schematic construction, and layout tips. What is a little harder to find are tutorials on the ...

In 2026, every serious PCB buyer needs to maintain two qualified production sources for each core technology bucket that accounts for 60% of your business, and two quote-ready challengers to keep warm ...

Manufacturing challenges below 8mil. When drill to trace spacing falls below 8 mil, the PCB moves into a far more complex ...

You have just completed the layout of your latest space-electronics’ project, simulated and verified the physical implementations of your circuits, and are now ready to email the stack details as well ...

Open source pick and place machines have come a long way in the past years, but are not necessarily worth the setup time and machine cost if you are only building a few PCBs at a time. [Nuri Erginer] ...

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 ...

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 ...

Polar Instruments Ltd, and Ventec Europe announce that the Materials Library in Polar’s Speedstack PCB stack-up design and documentation system has been extended to include Ventec’s latest PCB ...

HX8861 is in the same family with similar specs but missing a few features and in a smaller package. It has a datasheet: One of your resistors is labeled "POL" which is pin 36 above. There is also a ...