PCBWay Feb 28,2018 3217

What is Rigid-Flex PCB?

Rigid-Flex printed circuit boards are boards using a combination of flexible and rigid board technologies in an application. Most rigid flex boards consist of multiple layers of flexible cir...

Rigid-Flex PCB

PCBWay Feb 28,2018 5838

Aluminum PCB vs FR-4 PCB

What is Aluminum PCB?Among all Metal core PCBs, Aluminum PCBs is the most common type - the base material consists of aluminum core with standard FR4. It features a thermal clad layer that dissipates ...

Aluminum PCB FR-4 PCB

gaodaoman Feb 26,2018 5319

What are Plated Half-Holes（Castellated Holes）

Plated half holes（castellated holes）are holes that made off the edge of the boards plated withcopper using a specialized process. It is predominantly used for board-on-board connections, mostly where ...

Plated Half-Holes Castellated Holes

Anson Bao Feb 26,2018 4934

What is the meaning of Glass Transition Temperature (Tg)

The Glass Transition Temperature (Tg) is one of the most important properties of any epoxy and is the temperature region where the polymer transitions from a hard, glassy material to a soft, rubbery m...

Glass Transition Temperature

Anson Bao Feb 09,2018 957

The award winner of "Share Your Video Story With PCBWay" activity

Thank you very much for your enthusiastic participation and support “share your video story with PCBWay”activity. In this competition we received total 54 videos, the video shows all kinds of projects...

Share Your Video Story With PCBWay

PCBWay Feb 09,2018 1134

The 5th Maker Faire NoVa! Meet PCBWay in George Mason University!

We are excited to announce our new Sponsorship of Maker Faire NoVa with NOVA Labs a 10,000 sq-ft non-profit community maker space in Reston, VA. This year, it is targeting 150 exhibitors and...

makerfairenova sponsorship George Mason?University

Anson Bao Feb 02,2018 1512

The first SMT skill competition among PCBWay staff

In order to regulate behavior of employees better and improve the operating skills of employees. To inspire the enthusiasm of employees and create good atmosphere that learn from each other, the SMT d...

SMT skill competition

PCBWay Feb 02,2018 1822

New product in gift shop! HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Ranging Sensor Module

HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor uses sonar to determine distance to an object like bats or dolphins do. It offers excellent non-contact range detection with high accuracy and stable readings in an easy-to-u...

HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Ranging Sensor gift shop beans

PCBWay Feb 02,2018 1595

New product in gift shop! ESP32 ESP-32S Development Board 2.4GHz WiFi+Bluetooth Dual Mode

ESP32 ESP-32S Development Board 2.4GHz WiFi+Bluetooth Dual ModeESP-32S Wifi Bluetooth combo module is ultra high performance and ultra low-power consumption Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo wireless platform...

ESP32 ESP-32S gift shop redeem beans

PCBWay Jan 25,2018 10539

What is Solder Mask Bridge and Solder Mask Opening on a PCB

1.Solder Mask Bridge: The oil between two pins of component is solder mask bridge, generally refers to intensive IC pin (check the below picture). If the distance of pin is too small, it will be recom...

Solder Mask Bridge Solder Mask Opening

PCBWay Jan 25,2018 3544

New product in PCBWay's gift shop! ESP8266 ESP-01 Serial WIFI Wireless Transceiver Module Receive LWIP AP+STA

ESP8266 is a complete and self-contained Wi-Fi network solutions that can carry software applications, or through Another application processor uninstall all Wi-Fi networking capabilities. EP-01&...

ESP8266 Gift shop Beans Redeem ESP-01

PCBWay Jan 23,2018 1499

Share your awesome projects on our new feature page!

Last year,2017 PCBWay has launched a new feature page called “ Shared Projects”. It’s mainly for the open source hardware enthusiasts who are willing to share their PCB layouts an...

shared projects open source hardware gerber file

PCBWay Dec 11,2017 3585

Refuse conductive adhesive technology in pcb manufacture

What is conductive adhesive?Conductive adhesive is adhesive that has conductive performance in solid or dried state. Its main components are matrix resin and conductive fillers, also means conductive ...

conductive adhesive PTH eletcroless Plating Copper Plated Through hole

Anson Bao Dec 08,2017 4286

Mysterious Christmas gift from PCBWay

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in advance!It is highly appreciated for your continuing grand supports to us. We truly feel honored to be your chosen PCB manufacturer and value your trust in our co...

Christmas gift，PCBWay

PCBWay Dec 06,2017 3573

Why is there additional cost for panel PCBs?

The reason why the cost of panel pcb will increase is it lower substrate utilization.PCB substrate is a fixed&...

Panel PCB substrate utilization

PCBWay Dec 06,2017 3891

Blind vias and Buried Vias

Blind and buried vias are only available on boards with at least four layers. Unlike regular vias on a two layer board which connect the two surface layers, buried and blind vias connect the inner lay...

Blind vias Buried Vias

PCBWay Dec 06,2017 2671

What should I do if my PCB does not require solder mask?

Unlike the copper layer, the solder mask layer is negative. This means a solid object in the layer corresponds to a hole, or opening in the solder mask layer (an area without solder mask covering). Th...

solder mask design

PCBWay Dec 06,2017 2792

What is the correct way to draw silkscreen on the bottom layer?

The bottom silkscreen text should be reflected (mirrored). Most PCB design software will automatically reflect the text for you but please make sure this is the case in the Online Gerber Viewer or oth...

silkscreen bottom layer

PCBWay Dec 06,2017 3532

What's the Gerber?

The Gerber format is an open 2D binary vector image file format. It is the standard file used by printed circuit board (PCB) industry software to describe the printed circuit board imag...

Gerber

PCBWay Nov 27,2017 2036

The first Kuala Lumpur Mini Maker Faire in Malaysia

There is no doubt that Kuala Lumpur Mini Maker Faire is the largest MMF in Malaysia. There are over 150 booths and attract a huge number of audience in two days. Definitely it is a...

Kuala Lumpur Mini Maker Faire sponsorship maker