HARTING has developed a component carrier that can be used directly with electronic components eliminating manual assembly and replacing flexible PCBs. Increasing precision and reducing assembly costs ...

Anyone who’s spent significant amounts of time salvaging old electronics has probably wished there were a way to take apart a circuit board without desoldering it. [Zeyu Yan] et al seem to have had ...

Researchers are turning to an unlikely source to develop environmentally friendly computer components: the barnyard. Richard Wool, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, ...

You hold in your hand a circuit board from a product you didn’t make. How does the thing work? What a daunting question, but it’s both solvable and approachable if you know what you’re doing. The good ...

A new type of printed circuit board (PCB) could drastically reduce the amount of electronic waste that ends up in landfills. Although most PCBs are difficult to recycle, such is not the case with this ...

They are the "heart" of every electronic device, from laptops to electric toothbrushes: printed circuit boards, also known as ...

A fully compostable alternative to conventional circuit boards using wood-based materials—promising a future where electronic ...