The first step is to layout the circuit you wish to create, including all required parts and copper traces, in your PCB design software program of choice. There are many very good, and easy-to-use, ...

If you have ever had a project where you custom designed a circuit, you know how useful it would have been to develop a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) based on your design. Doing it commercially can ...

So now you have your circuit board with a beautiful custom silkscreen on it. But if you think about it, you’re really just a hop, skip, and a jump away from starting to make your own custom ...

Now before you start asking yourself “best for what purpose?”, just have a look at the quality of the DIY PCB in the image above. [ForOurGood] is getting higher resolution on the silkscreen ...

Although DIY PCB making has made great strides since the early days of chemical etching, there’s one fly in the ointment: vias. These connect individual layers of the board with a conductive … ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

One romance-loving user of EasyEDA, a web-based electronic circuit design tool that lets people build and order customized PCB boards, has given us the Merry Me, a printed circuit board that, with ...

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 ...