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 ...

While low-cost professional PCB fabrication has largely supplanted making circuit boards at home, there’s still something to be said for being able to go from design to prototype in an afternoon.

Plasma Etch Inc. is excited to introduce the Magna series printed circuit board (PCB) etching system. It is the first plasma etching system that requires no CF4 in the manufacturing production of PCBs ...

It was pcb Sunday afternoon in the workshop, and I though I would try toner transfer using ordinary paper. The idea is that you laser print your design onto paper (really black), iron the paper onto ...

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 ...

After my DIY article “Build Your Own Headphone Amp” in the May 25 issue, the good folks at Radio World asked me to share the process by which I make printed circuit boards. There are usually two ...

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 ...

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 ...