In Part 3 of our weeklong series about local manufacturing, WGLT visits a Bloomington company that serves both farms and the ...

As electronic components and products continue to shrink in size, circuit miniaturization techniques keep pace. Stud bumps provide a contact system with the conductive properties of solder that is ...

X-rays can go deeper into PC-board inspection than traditional vision systems to uncover component placement and soldering errors. The proliferation of cell phones, pagers, and miniaturized ...

A little piece of technology essential to modern life can now be produced by virtually anyone who wants it in north Queensland. Vayeron said the pick-and-place machine was Australia's first to be made ...

Printed circuit boards are a fundamental part of both of commercial electronic equipment and of the projects we feature here on Hackaday. Many of us have made our own, whether done so from first ...

Over the past few years, as the ‘maker‘ movement has taken hold, we have seen some spectacular projects emerge from people’s garages — all thanks to the wonder of tools such as 3D printers. Now, after ...

Tossed circuit boards are about 20% copper, a much larger fraction than the roughly half a percent in copper ore mined from the ground. That percentage, plus the growing mounds of global electronic ...