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    <div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fFI33f4TejM" class="youtube-player" width="740" height="416.418" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span>
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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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    <div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2oA4X3OTz0M" class="youtube-player" width="740" height="416.418" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span>
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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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            Chapters:
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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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    <div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X-qubBLJDD8" class="youtube-player" width="740" height="416.418" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span>
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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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        This video demonstrates how to generate and check gerber files from your PCB layout. Gerber files are the files (output) what are sent to PCB manufacturer.
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="http://www.pentalogix.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=67">Free version of ViewMate to check gerber files</a></li>
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Altium Designer – Generating Gerbers for PCB Manufacturer

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        I would like to share some statistics about hardware development. The results can be applied to your projects too.<br><br>

        Picture: Time needed for my latest Hardware development project (in percentage)</i>
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        <b>Facts from the project</b>
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            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">Schematic design (95h)
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                    <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">72h drawing the schematic</span></li>
                    <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">23h schematic checking</span></li>
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            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">PCB design (215h)
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                    <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">15h placement</span></li>
                    <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">50h connecting nets (excluding DDR3)</span></li>
                    <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">95h DDR3 design (routing (35h), length matching (50h), checking(10h))</span></li>
                    <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">20h Improving layout</span></li>
                    <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">35h Assembly drawings, stackup, 3D modeling, …</span></li>
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            </span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">The work around components – ordering information, availability, footprints, … (50h)</span></li>
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        All the information was taken from my work summary sheet. The work summary document is generated from ProjectAndTask.com which I use to track down my time.<br><br>

        What’s your experience? Do you agree with these numbers?
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://assets.fedevel.com/blog/downloads/work_summary_for_schematic_design_and_pcb_layout.pdf">Work summary sheet</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="http://www.projectandtask.com/">ProjectAndTask.com</a></li>
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How long Schematic design and PCB layout take – Check here

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        This video explains how I was doing DDR3 layout and length matching in Altium Designer.
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