When an electronics circuit is validated on a bread-board, the next stage may be to build it on a padboard. For commercialization (i.e. to turn it into a mass-produced product), this is turned into a PCB. This is what you’d typically see in a product that has electronics within it. (There is also IC/chips fabrication, […]

The supply crisis has created obstacle after obstacle for creation of the electronics’ PCB. Simply, there are very few ICs to be found. Whichever PCB fabricator I approach is missing some component or other. Suppliers are out of stock on some major parts of the Minder 1 circuit. What little stock might exist has shot […]

The great Karim Yaghmour reflects upon what I’ve ended up going through: there is an enormous difference between cooking up a project using a standard dev board like an Arduino and self-printing a case for it, and actually charting a path to creating a finished product that can be mass-produced, marketed and supported. Karim Yaghmour. […]