Pogo pins – spring-loaded pin contacts are pretty fun to play with and even cooler when they get used in electronic devices like Adafruit and SparkFun’s test jigs. Check after the break for how these ...

We’ve said it before: building one-offs is different from building at scale. Even on a small scale. There was a time when it was rare for a hobbyist to produce more than one of anything, but these ...

Distribution amps and many other types of equipment can provide multiple outputs seldom accessed once set, which makes it that much more troublesome when a change must be made. Writing on the unit ...

The UNH-IOL (University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory) designs and builds its own test jigs to connect test equipment with devices under test. The staff makes its test jigs out of FR4 ...

Nottingham-based Ignys is aiming at low volume manufacturing with a fixture concept for PCB testing, programming or calibration. “For high volume products, there are conventional ways of arranging ...

It might not be surprising that much of the testing at the UNH-IOL is performed using custom software written in various languages/programs by our employees. However, what many don’t know is that we ...