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Ken Burns has published 7 hardware projects on Kickstarter. He explains how it works.
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://tinycircuits.com/">Ken's company TinyCircuits</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses">FEDEVEL Online courses</a></li>
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Can You Make Money on Kickstarter HW Projects?

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Interesting experiments and examples to help you to understand ground layout in PCB. Explained by Hans Rosenberg
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            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">00:00</span><span class="chapters-text">What is this video about</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">00:19</span><span class="chapters-text">Currents flow under track</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">03:10</span><span class="chapters-text">What happen when you are making a board</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">08:37</span><span class="chapters-text">Where currents flow</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">14:01</span><span class="chapters-text">Experiment: Cut under track</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">19:51</span><span class="chapters-text">Floating copper fill</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">23:15</span><span class="chapters-text">Grounded copper fill</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">27:04</span><span class="chapters-text">Experiment: Filter</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">35:05</span><span class="chapters-text">2 Layer vs. 4 Layer</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">44:00</span><span class="chapters-text">3 rules to prevent ground problems</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">46:05</span><span class="chapters-text">Example: Ground plane</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">49:52</span><span class="chapters-text">Example: 1 VIA per GND pin</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">54:46</span><span class="chapters-text">Example: Gap in GND plane</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:02:00</span><span class="chapters-text">Example: FPGA board redesign</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:05:16</span><span class="chapters-text">Star grounding</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:07:39</span><span class="chapters-text">Multiple ground planes</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:14:30</span><span class="chapters-text">Example: Digital and Analog on one board</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">1:16:40</span><span class="chapters-text">About Hans</span></li>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@HansRosenberg74">Hans´ YouTube</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.hans-rosenberg.com/">Hans´ website</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses">FEDEVEL Online courses</a></li>
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Examples of BAD Ground in PCB Layout And How to Fix It

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What will happen if you don't have enough GND pins on your connector?
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/bogatin/">About Eric</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses">FEDEVEL Online courses</a></li>
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Do You Design Connector Pinout Correctly? | Eric Bogatin

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        Thank you very much to Eric for very nice practical examples to show how important it is to think about currents flowing through your PCB.
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                <span class="chapters-time">02:48</span><span class="chapters-text">Intro</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">15:22</span><span class="chapters-text">Intro</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">23:21</span><span class="chapters-text">Intro</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">25:29</span><span class="chapters-text">Intro</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">37:17</span><span class="chapters-text">Intro</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">1:02:31</span><span class="chapters-text">Intro</span>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/emcminzhang/">Eric Bogatin LinkedIn</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://youtu.be/icRzEZF3eZo">What Every PCB Designer Should Know - Return Current Path (with Eric Bogatin)</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://youtu.be/EF7SxgcDfCo">What Every PCB Designer Should Know - Crosstalk Explained (with Eric Bogatin)</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://youtu.be/5EeQPxRdurk">Understanding Crosstalk in PCB Layout - You may wish you knew this before (with Eric Bogatin)</a></li>
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Watch How a PCB Layout Change Makes Big Difference – with Eric Bogatin (Ground bounce)

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        How to write an I2C driver from scratch in C for an STM32F4 microcontroller interfacing with an accelerometer (Analog Devices ADXL355) using the datasheet and ST´s HAL (hardware abstraction layer).<br><br>Going through schematic, STM32CubeIDE setup, low-level functions, initialization, setting registers, reading registers, configuring the sensor, reading data, and finally testing the driver.
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            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">00:00</span><span class="chapters-text">Introduction</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">00:28</span><span class="chapters-text">Sensor (ADXL355, JLCPCB)</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">01:22</span><span class="chapters-text">Altium Designer</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">01:42</span><span class="chapters-text">Sensor Board Schematic and PCB (KiCad)</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">03:38</span><span class="chapters-text">STM32F4 Schematic (LittleBrain)</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">04:16</span><span class="chapters-text">STM32CubeIDE Setup</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">06:40</span><span class="chapters-text">Basic Project Structure</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">07:55</span><span class="chapters-text">Driver Header File</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">16:11</span><span class="chapters-text">Driver Source File (Low-Level Functions)</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">18:41</span><span class="chapters-text">Driver Source File (Sensor Initialisation and Setup)</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">26:18</span><span class="chapters-text">Driver Source File (Temperature Measurement)</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">30:21</span><span class="chapters-text">Driver Source File (Acceleration Measurements)</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">34:10</span><span class="chapters-text">Testing the Driver</span></li>
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How To Write A Driver (STM32, I2C, Datasheet) - Phil's Lab #30

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        Thank you very much to Min for very nice practical examples to show how to improve EMC results of a switching power supply.
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">00:00</span><span class="chapters-text">What this video is about</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">37:58</span><span class="chapters-text">EMC</span>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses/practical-emc-training-for-design-engineers">Practical EMC Training for Design Engineers</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/emcminzhang/">Min's LinkedIn</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://mach1design.co.uk/">Min's company website</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="http://emccompliance.co.uk/">Min's articles and resources</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://mach1design.co.uk/dc-dc-converter-trouble-shooting-case">Link to the Min's presentation</a></li>
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