Do you ever wonder why your PCB maker uses Gerber files? It doesn’t have to do with baby food. Gerber was the company that introduced photoplotting. Early machines used a xenon bulb to project shapes ...

What is a Gerber file? If you ask your mother, she would probably answer: “Gerber? It’s a food for infants.” If you ask someone who’s into hunting and camping, “Gerber” would be a brand name for ...

I've been in the electronics and computing industries ever since I graduated with my BSc from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK back in 1980. Since that time, I've designed all sorts of weird and ...

The hardware and software powering today’s electronic devices have evolved at breakneck speed, but one crucial bottleneck remains – prototyping, in particular unforeseen and costly delays during PCB ...

For the next post in the Creating A PCB series, we’re going to continue our explorations of Eagle. In Part 1, I went over how to create a part from scratch in Eagle. In Part 2, we used this part to ...

Someone called Rafal Powierski got in touch about a 3D Gerber file viewer he has written. Now, I cannot vouch for any of it, so do your own due diligence, but the video looks pretty interesting. There ...