I recall the point I started taking electronics seriously, although excited, a sense of dread followed upon the thought of facing the two main obstacles faced by hobbyists and even professionals: ...

A PCB file is a data file containing a circuit board design, and stands for "Printed Circuit Board." You don't need the program that was used to create the file; several Windows applications with PCB ...

When I saw this year’s Supercon Vectorscope badge, I decided that I had to build one for myself. Since I couldn’t attend in-person, I immediately got the PCBs and parts on order. Noting that the ...

The land before CAD was a tough one. Luckily for us, this long and tedious process has been dramatically shortened with the development of modern CAD tools. Today, we have many technological luxuries ...