There is no one best fab house. It depends what you need and the kind of boards you are making. For a one-off hobby or test project, maybe OSH Park is best. For high-tech boards, Sierra Proto Express ...

Everyone has their favorite process for PCB fabrication, as long as you’re a happy hacker I don’t think it really matters. But in this post I thought it might be interesting to describe my personal ...

Manufacturing challenges below 8mil. When drill to trace spacing falls below 8 mil, the PCB moves into a far more complex manufacturing zone. Standard mechanical drilling is often insufficient, and ...

Created three years ago, New York City-based startup BotFactory finalized and ramped up its production of a desktop multilayer PCB printer back in 2014, during a successful crowdfunding campaign on ...

I'm wrapping up my PCB fab review series back in China, with a look at board house ShenZhen2U. The base price for five or ten double-sided boards (only the shipping cost changes) is $11.90 (10 × 10cm ...

The global electronics manufacturing industry is undergoing rapid transformation. The increasing complexity of devices, shrinking component sizes, and the rise ...

Bannockburn, IL. IPC has released IPC-9121, Troubleshooting PCB Fabrication Processes, an essential resource for anyone involved in manufacturing or purchasing printed-circuit boards (PCBs). This new ...

The diagram above is a typical PCB layout in Altium Circuitmaker software. The days of “electro” and “mechanical” being separate disciplines are long gone. Virtually all mechanical systems now come ...

Vítor Barbosa based in Brazil has modified a Lexmark E460dn laserjet printer to aid with the fabrication of PCBs. The aptly named “haxmark460” was inspired by other projects on the Instructables ...

Biodegradable PCB research from the University of Glasgow explores zinc-based circuit boards designed for short-lifetime electronic applications.

With the low-cost PCB fabrication services available to hackers and makers these days, we’ll admit that making your own boards at home doesn’t hold quite the appeal that it did in the past. But even ...