The Bill of Materials (BoM) Nobody likes getting the bill. But why? Perhaps it’s because it’s a sobering reality check at the end of a long night full of excitement (and possibly questionable decisions). Or maybe it reminds us of the costs of our journey and all the stops along
The PCB Artwork Every artist needs a medium. This holds true even in the world of electronics design and engineering. Yet instead of wood, canvas, and paint, electronics engineers create their master works out of fiberglass, copper, and special lacquer coatings. Ah, Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), where would we be
3D Printed Case Design Imagine your cell phone is an exposed printed circuit board with no case. It still has all of the buttons, the screen, the microphone, speaker, and everything else it needs to function properly. Everything works, but you have to handle it very carefully to make sure
Introduction and Specifications The Situation Imagine staring down the multi-faceted green spider web of electrical interconnections known as the circuit board in your hands, searching frantically for an answer. After a long pause you ask yourself, “just where does pin 7 of IC 3 ultimately connect to?” We can all
Expect the Unexpected Fake chips can ruin your day! No, we aren’t talking about questionably edible crispy snacks that leave a bad taste in your mouth. The electronic variety of Fake Chips tend to leave a bad hole in one’s project budget and perhaps in the electronic circuit board on
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Would a Part by Any Other Name Work as Well? Like Everything in Engineering, it Depends. In the fast-paced world of electrical design, technology improves, manufacturing techniques change, and parts become obsolete at a rate unparalleled in most other fields of engineering. But there’s so much more to it than
The iconic line from The Princess Bride holds true when it comes to electronic repair and PCB repair: there’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. And often it just so happens that your circuit board is only mostly dead. How Can Electronics that Look so Badly Damaged
Recently we were working on a variable frequency drive and this repair was a hot rush – meaning that an entire line in a factory was down, the need to repair the drive quickly and efficiently was of utmost importance. Once the drive was received into our repair laboratory we
