Microcontroller Board in Escape From Tarkov: Trading, Crafting & Other Details

The Microcontroller board (MB) is an electronic item in Escape from Tarkov. This is a generic loot item that grants 40 loot experience and 5 examine experience to players who get their hands on it. It is basically a printed circuit board from microcontrollers and is a consumable in the production of various advanced far-forward electronics components in Tarkov. Players should note that this item cannot be listed for sale on the flea market. 

Here’s everything that you need to know about the microcontroller board, where to find it, its location, and how to trade and craft the item.

Trading and crafting the Microcontroller Board in Escape from Tarkov

You can get your hands on the MB on the Lab map in Tarkov or by finishing the following quests:

• Missing Informant

• Spotter

There are the items that you need to trade with trader Sergey Arsenyevich Samoylov aka Mechanic for the microcontroller board:

• Military circuit board x15

• Power supply unit x10

• Capacitors x50

• VPX Flash Storage Module x5

Note that you need to trade with Mechanic LL4 after completing Lightkeeper's task Missing Informant.

Here’s how you craft the Microcontroller board:

Microcontroller board

• Silicon Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits textbook x1

• Flat screwdriver x1

• Pliers Elite x1

• Far-forward GPS Signal Amplifier Unit x1

With these items, you will craft four MBs in 14 hours. But you must have completed the Lightkeeper task called Spotter.

Let us look at the crafting recipes using the microcontroller board in Escape from Tarkov:

Military COFDM Wireless Signal Transmitter

• Advanced Electronic Materials textbook x1

• Toolset x 1

• Tech manual x1

• Broken GPhone X smartphone x1

• Portable Powerbank x1

• Military circuit board x1

• MB x1 

After completing Lightkeeper’s task Missing Informant, you can use these items with Intelligence Center level 2 to craft the Military COFDM Wireless Signal Transmitter. It will take 38 hours 53 minutes and 20 seconds.

LEDX Skin Transilluminator

• Silicon Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits textbook x1

• Toolset x1

• Ophthalmoscope x2

• Magnet x3

• UHF RFID Reader x3

• Portable Powerbank x3

• MB x1

You need Medstation level 3 for crafting this and it will take 38 hours 53 minutes and 20 seconds.

Trijicon REAP-IR thermal scope

• Advanced Electronic Materials textbook x1

• Silicon Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits textbook x1

• Toolset x1

• Iridium military thermal vision module x4

• NIXXOR lens x2

• Microcontroller board x1

• Virtex programmable processor x2

To craft this specific scope, you need Workbench level 3 and you must have completed the ‘Make an Impression’ quest by the Lightkeeper. It will craft in 24 hours.