Monday, May 11, 2009

The Printed Circuit Board

Electronic devices are ubiquitious. We casually wear them and carry them in our pockets and let them handle our money and help drive our cars and never give them a thought until they stop working.

Perhaps surprisingly, the basis of electronics are a few types of basic components, assembled in circuits that contain from a few up to thousands of components.

The explosion in electronic devices over the last fifty years is due to a number of technologies, one of which is the printed circuit board.

This in turn depends on a technology familiar to the ancient Romans, called soldering.

In my speech at Wednesday's meeting I will explain and demonstrate soldering and the process of producing printed circuit boards.

3 comments:

  1. Please feel free to ask any questions on this topic. It would help to make the presentation clearer.

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  2. Natalie asks:

    "What are the shortcomings of the printed circuit board?"

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  3. Linda Poll-Jonker asks:

    "If I happen to put too much soldering onto a joint that causes my circuit to malfunction, how can I remedy this situation?"

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