Here’s a PCB fabrication process that makes us envious. It’s pretty darn close to fab-house quality at home. [Cpirius] is using a CNC mill and through hole plating technique to produce … ...

As through-hole components are supplanted by their surface-mount equivalents, we’re beginning to see the departure of once-common component form factors.

It is branding this as ‘THR’ for ‘through-hole reflow’. “Highly integrated electronic circuits are almost exclusively assembled with surfact-mount components and soldered in a reflow oven, however, it ...