Most hobbyists say that it is easier to build a functional prototype of an electronic device, than to make the enclosure for it. You could say that there are a lot of ready-made enclosures on the ...

Over on Hackaday.io, [bobricius] took this technology and designed something great. It’s a GSM cell phone with a case made out of FR4. It’s beautiful, and if you’re ever in need of a beautifully ...

At low frequency, a transmission line, open at one end, looks like a capacitor. After all, it is just two conductors, the signal path and the return path, with some insulation between them. This is ...

Antenova of Hatfield has introduced a miniature antenna for global navigation systems (GNSS) such as GPS. Called Beltii (part SR4G013), it is 15.6 x 3.3 x 4.4mm and covers 1,559-1,609MHz. “The antenna ...

This article presents the design of a 3.3 – 3.8 GHz LNA suitable for IEEE 802.16a WiMAX customer premise equipment (CPE) and base transceiver stations (BTS), built on inexpensive FR4 copper laminate ...

Coherent Corp. has announced the launch of its new 2x400G-FR4 Lite optical transceiver, designed for AI-driven data centers and Ethernet networks. This silicon photonics-based module offers a reach of ...