A while ago, [drygol] was asked to repair a few old Amiga keyboards. The key switches worked fine, but in the past decade or two, the flexible PCB ribbon connector has been mistreated, and was in an ...

Since you are designing flex layers into a circuit, it’s a safe bet that circuit is intended to bend. The key question is, ...

The now-humble PCB was revolutionary when it came along, and the whole ecosystem that evolved around it has been a game changer in electronic design. But the PCB is just so… flat. Planar.

As more of our lives are reliant upon mobile electronics, there is an ever-growing risk of their delicate circuitry being damaged by knocks and bumps. But engineers have developed swarms of tiny ...