The Ware for August 2025 is shown below.

Thanks to Curtis Galloway for contributing this bit of nostalgia! This board has the look of one that was laid out by hand using masking tape or rubylith – back in the day before computers became affordable and powerful enough to regularly use them for making new computers. It also looks hand-soldered, instead of wave-soldered. I only ever designed a couple of boards using tape, but even today I’m still hand-soldering boards – BGAs, 0201’s and all. I do a lot less of it than I used to, but you still gotta fix bugs and hack things the old fashioned way.

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