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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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        <h2 class="blog-content-heading">What will you learn?</h2>
        After this course, you will know how to design your own boards in Altium Designer.
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        <h2 class="blog-content-heading">How to register for this course?</h2>
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            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses">Register & Login on FEDEVEL Academy website</a></span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses/learn-altium-essentials">Select your course (you need to be logged in)</a></span></li>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses/learn-altium-essentials">Learn Altium Essentials</a></li>
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Learn Altium Essentials – Online Course

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        I am always curious to see some statistics from projects I have done. As I book all my hours into a system, it’s not very difficult to prepare some interesting graphs. Here they are ….
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        <h2 class="blog-content-heading">“Once you have got your prototype you are only on half of the way to get your product.”</h2>
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        <b>What is so interesting on these graphs?</b><br>
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            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">PCB Layout takes 1/3 of Prototype design</span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">The non design work (Testing, debugging, emails, manufacturing, documentation) takes another 1/3 of time</span></li>
            <li class="content-list-item"><span class="content-text">Once you have got your prototype (Schematic + Libraries + PCB), you still have a lot of work to do. You have actually done only 63% of prototype design and you are only on half of the way to get your product!</span></li>
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        <i>Note: All these data are based on a real project, a high density and highly customized x86 board very different from the reference circuit.</i>
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x86 Custom Board Design – How long it takes?

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        How to solder BGA and QFN components at home or at your LAB with inexpensive hot air gun? I made this video tutorial for you, so you can try it by yourself.
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                <span class="chapters-time">01:47</span><span class="chapters-text">Place it one centimeter above surface</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">02:44</span><span class="chapters-text">Set the temperature to 280 degrees</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">04:16</span><span class="chapters-text">Place the PCB on maybe metal surface</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">04:37</span><span class="chapters-text">Heat up the PCB</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">05:37</span><span class="chapters-text">Start heating it up with the gun</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">06:07</span><span class="chapters-text">Remove the gun</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">06:38</span><span class="chapters-text">Solder the pins</span>
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