Electronics Weekly

From Breadboard to Printed Circuit – Part I

PCB design is easy, right? To a certain extent that’s fair to say; with a growing number of schematic design and PCB layout packages available — normally integrated, increasingly free — almost anyone ...
Hackaday

Circuit Building With A Hammer And Nails

[Collin Cunningham] over at Make recently wrapped up another edition of “Collin’s Lab” – this time around, the subject is breadboards. He starts off by discussing a common solderless breadboard, ...
Electronic Design

“Sandwizz” Schematic-Configurable Breadboard Kickstarter Hits 120% Of Funding Goal

Microaware’s Sandwizz, a schematic-configurable breadboard, hit 120% of its funding goal on Kickstarter on July 19, 2024. The KiCad freeware schematic capture tool is used to configure an active ...
Science Daily

Integrating electronics onto physical prototypes

Researchers have invented a way to integrate 'breadboards' -- flat platforms widely used for electronics prototyping -- directly onto physical products. The aim is to provide a faster, easier way to ...
Electronic Design

Prototyping Electronic Circuits The EZ Way

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). This ...
Electronics Weekly

From Breadboard to Printed Circuit – Part III

The first two parts of this blog series introduced the challenge of enabling Power Distribution Networks (PDN) to maintain a well regulated supply for sensitive components in a circuit, in the face of ...