Every year brings a new crop of digital electronic devices with greater capabilities. There’s a rule-of-thumb called Moore’s Law that says the number of transistors in an integrated circuit will double every 18 months while the cost to produce it remains the same. It wasn’t long ago that a personal digital assistant with an 8 [...]

Printed circuit boards or PCBs are the foundation of modern electronics. They do more than simply provide electrical connections between components. Some incorporate an internal ground plane for signal isolation, preventing capacitive coupling between adjacent conductors. The ground plane also helps to dissipate heat. Printed circuit boards may be rigid or flexible, with the flexible [...]

Printed circuit boards perform two functions. They provide mechanical support for electronic devices and connect all the devices through conductive traces. Today, they are nearly universal in electronic devices. It wasn’t always so. Early electronics were hand-soldered by skilled technicians. Some industrial devices utilized wire wrap, a technique that involved wrapping a solid wire around [...]

Have you ever been playing a video game and wondered how pressing a button on the controller in your hand can make the character on screen perform a certain action? Whether it’s the 16 bit glory days of the Sega Mega Drive and Super Nintendo (SNES) or the advanced powerful machines of today such as [...]

Did you know about PCBTrain’s 1 day express turnaround service? If you are fast in need of printed circuits then we offer a service for the prototyping of PCBs that can be shipped by the following day of your order being placed.  There are of course certain limitations placed on this service which are detailed [...]

For a Friday afternoon we thought we would do a nice easy blog to simply talk about a printed circuit and what it is.       A printed circuit is an electrical device in which the wiring and certain parts are positioned in a predetermined pattern and includes a thin coat of electrically conductive material [...]

Do you remember the printed circuit board car that we blogged about at the end of last year? Well here at PCB Train we have found something as equally cool/geeky. Ladies and gentlemen we present to you the printed circuit board shoe!     That’s right for the ultimate in geek fashion you can walk [...]

The clever fellows over at WyoInnovation have knocked up an innovative new way of telling the time using an Arduino unit and a little electronicsl know-how. Aptly dubbed – “The WORDuino”.               We’re pretty sure this nifty little clock should win some sort of design award! A wonderful word-based [...]

You might have thought you’d seen everything possible related to PCBs, well think again. Since the release of the hugely popular IPhone, people have been going crazy with ways to personalise there favourite gadget. 1000s of companies have been bringing out funky accessories to help you personalise your phone, including cases, stickers and other gadgets. [...]

A savvy electrical engineer from The University Of Waterloo thought up another fantastic purpose for PCB manufacture - his buisness cards, with an integrated USB connection! And here’s the innovative piece of kit in action: Could this be a sign of the future? Imagine the data that could be passed over! Not just simple contact details [...]