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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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        <ul class="chapters-list">
            <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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        <ul class="links-list">
            <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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        When you are designing your boards, what calculator do you use and what calculations do you need the most? Thank you very much to Kenneth Wood
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            Chapters:
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        <ul class="chapters-list">
            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">00:00</span><span class="chapters-text">What is this video about</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">03:22</span><span class="chapters-text">Conductor properties - maximum current through a track</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">12:01</span><span class="chapters-text">Fusing current - when a track will burn up</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">15:20</span><span class="chapters-text">Conductor / Track impedance</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">31:34</span><span class="chapters-text">Differential pair calculator</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">36:32</span><span class="chapters-text">Crosstalk calculator</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">39:02</span><span class="chapters-text">Via Properties - maximum current through a via</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">42:59</span><span class="chapters-text">Impedance of differential VIAs</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">45:32</span><span class="chapters-text">Thermal management</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">48:40</span><span class="chapters-text">PPM XTAL Calculator</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">54:24</span><span class="chapters-text">OHM's Law calculator</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">56:24</span><span class="chapters-text">PDN Calculator</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">59:27</span><span class="chapters-text">Conductor / Track spacing for higher voltages</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">1:02:05</span><span class="chapters-text">Mechanical information</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">1:04:19</span><span class="chapters-text">Er Effective + Wavelength calculator </span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">1:08:51</span><span class="chapters-text">XL XC Reactance + Planar inductor + Embedded resistors</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">1:13:08</span><span class="chapters-text">Bandwidth and Max conductor length (when to consider a track to be transmission line)</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">1:16:39</span><span class="chapters-text">Padstack / Footprint calculator + Conversion calculator</span>
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            Links:
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        <ul class="links-list">
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://saturnpcb.com/saturn-pcb-toolkit/">Saturn PCB Toolkit</a></li>
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PCB Layout – Useful Calculations Which You Maybe Didn’t Know About (with Kenneth Wood)

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        A Step by Step tutorial to help everyone to learn how to design and build a simple microcontroller board. This Part 6 is about checking your board and soldering down missing components.
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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">Unpacking</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">01:03</span><span class="chapters-text">Put labels on your boards</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">06:39</span><span class="chapters-text">Do visual inspection</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">13:28</span><span class="chapters-text">Soldering down SOT-23 Diode</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">17:10</span><span class="chapters-text">Soldering down RGB SMT LED</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">19:24</span><span class="chapters-text">Through hole RGB LED</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">22:43</span><span class="chapters-text">Soldering down debug header</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">25:29</span><span class="chapters-text">Measure resistance of power rails</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">29:33</span><span class="chapters-text">Connecting our board to power</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">35:23</span><span class="chapters-text">Measure voltages on the power rails</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">37:46</span><span class="chapters-text">Measure oscillators and crystals</span>
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        </ul>
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            Links:
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://youtu.be/D_asM2Lh_I0">Finished project where you can see how this board is used</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://oshwlab.com/robertferanec/myboard">Download the finished Schematic and PCB here</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://github.com/FEDEVEL/youtube-tiny-simple">Download the project source code from here</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXvLToQzgzdea0sQXmpY8k4tfiXpkYIwO">Watch the full tutorial here</a></li>
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Tutorial #6: Useful Steps To Do After You Receive Your Boards From Production + Some soldering tips

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        Just a quick video about de-soldering components. I hope you will find it useful.
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