Bob Pease is big on hands-on engineering. He says, “A soldering iron is my Spice”. This is similar to a comment I heard in my consulting days: “An ounce of trial is better than a pound of opinion.” ...

I got a cute sample from Schmartboard. They make little circuit boards that have long strips on them so you can solder SOICs down and then wire up the chip with a combination of jumpers and ...

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).

On Monday (February 10th), Waterloo, Canada-based Voltera launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $70,000 for its new self-titled protyping ...

The first Apple computer's printed circuit board that was hand-soldered by Steve Wozniak in 1976, in undated photograph. Jobs used this prototype to demonstrate the Apple-1 to Paul Terrell, owner ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today launched the RL78/G14 Fast Prototyping Board – a low-cost ...

[Kalesh Sasidharan] from Sciotronics wrote in to tell us about their project, Stamp: a modular set of template breakout boards designed to make prototyping with SMD components faster, easier, and m… ...

FlecheTech Founders: Adrien Girod, Stevel Rossel, Julian Walder in Biel Switzerland The startup seeks to eco-optimize circuit board prototyping, enhancing sustainability and efficiency with ...