Hackaday

Electroplating DIY PCB Vias At Home Without Chemical Baths

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 tube, and ...
Electronic Design

PCB Plating Finishes Impact Elastomer Socket Technology

Today’s electronic packages have high clock speeds (multi-gigahertz range), fine pin densities (below 0.4-mm pitch), and high pin counts (over 2000). When assembled onto a printed-circuit board (PCB), ...
Electronics Weekly

Plating technique cuts cost of small batch PCB production

Eurocircuits, a European producer of small batch PCBs, has teamed up with Elsyca, a Belgian research company specialising in advanced electrochemical modelling, to implement PCB plating using Elsyca’s ...
Hackaday

A Real-World Experience In PCB Dye-Sub Printing

We all love PCB artwork, but those who create it work under the restriction of having a limited color palette to work with. If it’s not some combination of board, plating, solder mask, and silk screen ...
EDN

Impact of PCB plating Finish on Elastomer Socket Technology

Impact of PCB plating Finish on Elastomer Socket Technology Ila Pal – Ironwood Electronics Introduction Today’s electronic packages have high clock speeds (multi GHz range), fine pin densities (below ...