Even the most skilled developers and product designers can’t always know exactly what their users want. Software prototyping provides a functional proof-of-concept mock-up that identifies missing ...

Walking around the alley at Hackaday Supercon 2024, we noticed an interesting project was getting quite a bit of attention, so we got nearer for a close-up. The ‘Circuit Graver’ by [Zach Fredin] is an ...

As IC-design size continues to escalate, time-to-market windows tighten, design requirements become more stringent, and device geometries shrink to nanometer proportions. Because of these constraints, ...

In the last decade, the price for making a single PCB plummeted. And we’ve featured tons of hacks with boards hailing from places like OSH Park or Seeed Studio. But this phenomenon isn’t isolated, and ...

Prototyping is a familiar part of the product development process for manufacturing industries such as automotive, aerospace, wind energy, and marine. It is frequently utilized for product ...

Earlier this week at CES 2026, Synopsys showcased AI-driven, software-defined automotive engineering tools and virtual ...

As part of initiative launched earlier this year to boost the Coast Guard’s resources to enlarge the service and make it more ...

Toshiba Electronics Europe has partnered with embedded systems specialist MIKROE to launch a new development board aimed at ...

There’s a common phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” But when it comes to understanding a medical device concept, a prototype is worth a million—at least according to customers and end ...

Gaps are widening in the prototyping of large, complex chips because the speed and capacity of the FPGA is not keeping pace with rapid rollout pace of advanced ASICs. This is a new twist for a ...