📃 Top 5 PCB Design Guidelines Every PCB Designer Needs to Know
Guidelines that you need to know to design your next manufacturable, functional, and reliable PCB.
▫️ Fine-Tuning Your Component Placement: Be sure to orient similar components in the same direction as this will help with effective routing in PCB design. Avoid placing components on the solder side of a board that would rest behind plated through-hole components.
▫️ Placing Your Power, Ground & Signal Traces: It’s always recommended to have your power and ground planes internal to your printed circuit board, while also being symmetrical and centered. This will help to prevent your board from bending, which will also affect whether your components are properly positioned.
▫️ Keeping Things Separate: Be sure to keep the power ground and control ground separate for each power supply stage. To reduce capacitive coupling due to the placement of a large ground plane, try to have your analog ground crossed only by analog lines.
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Guidelines that you need to know to design your next manufacturable, functional, and reliable PCB.
▫️ Fine-Tuning Your Component Placement: Be sure to orient similar components in the same direction as this will help with effective routing in PCB design. Avoid placing components on the solder side of a board that would rest behind plated through-hole components.
▫️ Placing Your Power, Ground & Signal Traces: It’s always recommended to have your power and ground planes internal to your printed circuit board, while also being symmetrical and centered. This will help to prevent your board from bending, which will also affect whether your components are properly positioned.
▫️ Keeping Things Separate: Be sure to keep the power ground and control ground separate for each power supply stage. To reduce capacitive coupling due to the placement of a large ground plane, try to have your analog ground crossed only by analog lines.
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📰 New Optical Switch up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors
“Optical accelerator” devices could one day soon turbocharge tailored applications
A new optical switch is, at 1 trillion operations per second, between 100 and 1,000 times faster than today's leading commercial electronic transistors, research that may one day help lead to a new generation of computers based on light instead of electricity.
Optical computers that replace conventional transistors with optical switches could theoretically operate more quickly than regular computers, as photons travel at the speed of light, while electrons, typically, don’t.
The new device not only can operate extraordinarily quickly, but it can switch using as little as one photon of input on average. In contrast, transistors generally needs dozens of times more energy to switch, while those that switch using single electrons are much slower.
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“Optical accelerator” devices could one day soon turbocharge tailored applications
A new optical switch is, at 1 trillion operations per second, between 100 and 1,000 times faster than today's leading commercial electronic transistors, research that may one day help lead to a new generation of computers based on light instead of electricity.
Optical computers that replace conventional transistors with optical switches could theoretically operate more quickly than regular computers, as photons travel at the speed of light, while electrons, typically, don’t.
The new device not only can operate extraordinarily quickly, but it can switch using as little as one photon of input on average. In contrast, transistors generally needs dozens of times more energy to switch, while those that switch using single electrons are much slower.
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📟 Homebrew Hakko 907 - Open-Source Smart Arduino-Powered Digital Soldering Station
Easy project of a smart soldering station. Enjoy the variable and constant temperatures that can reach up to 525°C. The project only requires few components and roughly costs around $7 (excluding the repurposed power supply).
Project Specifications:
▫️ Designed for Hakko 907 handles
▫️ Compatible with similar handles
▫️ Temperature Range: 27°C-525°C
▫️ Warmup Time: 25s - 37s (325°C)
▫️ Recommended Supply: 24V, 3A
▫️ Power: 50W (Average)
More information...
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Easy project of a smart soldering station. Enjoy the variable and constant temperatures that can reach up to 525°C. The project only requires few components and roughly costs around $7 (excluding the repurposed power supply).
Project Specifications:
▫️ Designed for Hakko 907 handles
▫️ Compatible with similar handles
▫️ Temperature Range: 27°C-525°C
▫️ Warmup Time: 25s - 37s (325°C)
▫️ Recommended Supply: 24V, 3A
▫️ Power: 50W (Average)
More information...
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🛸 Jetson One - revolutionary personal electric aerial vehicle
Jetson is a Swedish company with a mission to change the way we travel
Jetson ONE is an ultralight and extremely fun to fly recreational all-electric personal vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The aircraft is made of aluminium and carbon fibre, powered with eight powerful electric motors. It has an empty weight of 40 kg and has a flight time (85 kg) of 20 minutes.
More information:
Official Website
Official Launch video
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Jetson is a Swedish company with a mission to change the way we travel
Jetson ONE is an ultralight and extremely fun to fly recreational all-electric personal vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The aircraft is made of aluminium and carbon fibre, powered with eight powerful electric motors. It has an empty weight of 40 kg and has a flight time (85 kg) of 20 minutes.
More information:
Official Website
Official Launch video
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📰 Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is out!
Priced at $15, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W uses the same Broadcom BCM2710A1 SoC die as the launch version of Raspberry Pi 3, with Arm cores slightly down-clocked to 1GHz, bundled into a single space-saving package alongside 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM.
The exact performance uplift over Zero varies across workloads, but for multi-threaded sysbench it is almost exactly five times faster.
Specifications:
▫️ Broadcom BCM2710A1, quad-core 64-bit SoC
▫️ 512MB LPDDR2 SDRAM
▫️ 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.2, BLE
▫️ HAT-compatible 40 pin I/O header footprint
▫️ MicroSD card slot
▫️ Mini HDMI port
▫️ CSI-2 camera connector
More information...
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Priced at $15, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W uses the same Broadcom BCM2710A1 SoC die as the launch version of Raspberry Pi 3, with Arm cores slightly down-clocked to 1GHz, bundled into a single space-saving package alongside 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM.
The exact performance uplift over Zero varies across workloads, but for multi-threaded sysbench it is almost exactly five times faster.
Specifications:
▫️ Broadcom BCM2710A1, quad-core 64-bit SoC
▫️ 512MB LPDDR2 SDRAM
▫️ 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.2, BLE
▫️ HAT-compatible 40 pin I/O header footprint
▫️ MicroSD card slot
▫️ Mini HDMI port
▫️ CSI-2 camera connector
More information...
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📊 Did COVID-19 Damage the Mobile Robot Market?
According to a report from Interact Analysis, revenues from mobile robot sales and shipments grew significantly in 2020 compared to 2019. This was despite delays in commissioning and the postponing of projects as a result of the pandemic.
Looking further ahead, robust and exponential growth is forecast, even when you take into account a lowering in Interact Analysis’ short-term projections. Mor than 2 million mobile robots are due to ship by the end of 2025.
Here are some of the results of the research:
▫️ Nearly 60,000 mobile robots shipped in 2020 – an increase of over 25% on 2019.
▫️ Revenues to reach $18 billion by 2025, despite a lowered short-term forecast.
The research shows that, by the end of 2025, nearly 2.1 million mobile robots will have been shipped – with almost 860,000 of these accounted for in 2025 alone. Revenues will hit $18 billion.
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According to a report from Interact Analysis, revenues from mobile robot sales and shipments grew significantly in 2020 compared to 2019. This was despite delays in commissioning and the postponing of projects as a result of the pandemic.
Looking further ahead, robust and exponential growth is forecast, even when you take into account a lowering in Interact Analysis’ short-term projections. Mor than 2 million mobile robots are due to ship by the end of 2025.
Here are some of the results of the research:
▫️ Nearly 60,000 mobile robots shipped in 2020 – an increase of over 25% on 2019.
▫️ Revenues to reach $18 billion by 2025, despite a lowered short-term forecast.
The research shows that, by the end of 2025, nearly 2.1 million mobile robots will have been shipped – with almost 860,000 of these accounted for in 2025 alone. Revenues will hit $18 billion.
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📟 Watchy CO₂ Sensor Watch
Open-source watch/wearable CO₂ sensor for COVID safety
The relationship of CO₂ sensing to COVID safety can be found at a number of places. Briefly CO₂ levels measure the amount of human breath in your vicinity, which is a reasonable proxy for the number of particles of an infectious airborne pathogen potentially in your vicinity.
There are some caveats, mostly related to indoor air filtration systems which can potentially remove (very small) virus particles but not (much smaller) CO₂ molecules, but it's still a reasonably interesting parameter to monitor when you're in a new or unusual setting.
The project is based on the Watchy (ESP32-powered open-source E-Paper Watch).
More information...
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Open-source watch/wearable CO₂ sensor for COVID safety
The relationship of CO₂ sensing to COVID safety can be found at a number of places. Briefly CO₂ levels measure the amount of human breath in your vicinity, which is a reasonable proxy for the number of particles of an infectious airborne pathogen potentially in your vicinity.
There are some caveats, mostly related to indoor air filtration systems which can potentially remove (very small) virus particles but not (much smaller) CO₂ molecules, but it's still a reasonably interesting parameter to monitor when you're in a new or unusual setting.
The project is based on the Watchy (ESP32-powered open-source E-Paper Watch).
More information...
#projects #esp32