Three-dimensional printing of printed circuit boards (PCBs) allows designers and engineers to test out ideas before committing to expensive tooling and manufacturing. Because they rapidly and ...

The last few years have seen great strides in budget printed circuit board manufacturing. These days you can have boards made in a week for only a few dollars a square inch. Flexible PCBs still tend ...

With the coming of very cheap blue laser diodes, PCB fabrication has become increasingly interesting. Instead of making a photoresist, placing it over a piece of pre-sensitized copper clad board, and ...

Open any magazine and it’s clear that applications for 3D printing are exploding. Yet one area that remains largely unexplored is the use of additive manufacturing for electronics. The convergence of ...

If you enjoy building electronic projects and have fancied being able to create your own PCB boards a new open source DIY laser PCB printer in the form of the DiyouPCB has been created to do just that ...

A new rapid prototyping machine has been launched on the Kickstarter crowdfunding website this week in the form of the Ex1 PCB 3D Printer which is being created to help developers rapidly test and ...

3D printers are great if you want to print small plastic widgets. But what if you want to print something a bit smarter, like an electronic circuit board? Australia and U.S.-based startup Cartesian Co ...

Flexible printed circuit boards (PCBs) aren’t much different than rigid boards during the design phase, except that the designer must account for the mechanical complexity associated with flex ...