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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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        Schematic tips and tricks to improve legibility, clarity, and usefulness. Tool-independent techniques but shown in Altium Designer, as well as showing things not do featuring a ´commercial´ schematic.
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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">00:55</span><span class="chapters-text">Sectioning</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">02:35</span><span class="chapters-text">Title Block</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">03:14</span><span class="chapters-text">Text and Calculations</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">04:17</span><span class="chapters-text">Symbols</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">05:20</span><span class="chapters-text">Crossings</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">06:17</span><span class="chapters-text">Net Labels</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">07:02</span><span class="chapters-text">Horizontal Text</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">07:19</span><span class="chapters-text">Power and Ground Direction</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">07:38</span><span class="chapters-text">Junctions</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">08:20</span><span class="chapters-text">Overlapping Text</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">08:38</span><span class="chapters-text">Component Order and Placement</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">10:22</span><span class="chapters-text">Colours</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">10:56</span><span class="chapters-text">Annotation</span></li>
            <li class="chapters-list-item"><span class="chapters-time">11:26</span><span class="chapters-text">What not to do...</span></li>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses/mixed-signal-hardware-design-with-kicad">Mixed-signal Hardware Design course</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://fedevel.com/courses">FEDEVEL courses</a></li>
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Schematic Tips & Tricks - Phil's Lab #62

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        Watch how the antenna fields will look around your head when wearing Bluetooth headphones. One of the best videos I have ever recorded.
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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>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">01:08</span><span class="chapters-text">Antenna fields around a coffee maker</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">10:35</span><span class="chapters-text">About the software used in this video: Ansys HFSS</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">14:23</span><span class="chapters-text">Designing inverted F antenna</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">17:49</span><span class="chapters-text">Placing antenna into a system</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">25:10</span><span class="chapters-text">Coffee machine + table + person + headphones + smartwatch</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">30:59</span><span class="chapters-text">Exporting antenna to PCB software</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">33:54</span><span class="chapters-text">Using existing antennas e.g. ceramic antenna</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">44:08</span><span class="chapters-text">What to look for in the simulation results</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">56:56</span><span class="chapters-text">Antenna pattern around a smartwatch</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">1:05:38</span><span class="chapters-text">Going through the Ansys software Project Manager panel</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">1:16:26</span><span class="chapters-text">About the ANSYS software price</span>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-laudien-6130665/">Markus' LinkedIn</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.ansys.com/products/electronics/ansys-hfss">Software used: ANSYS HFSS</a></li>
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Is This The Best Antenna Design And Simulation Software? | Markus Laudien

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        Do you talk to your PCB manufacturer and Assembly house to design better boards?
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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>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">00:30</span><span class="chapters-text">Tombstones</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">12:43</span><span class="chapters-text">Component rotation</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">18:54</span><span class="chapters-text">Wrong footprint</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">26:57</span><span class="chapters-text">Components too close to board edge</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">32:44</span><span class="chapters-text">Solder mask web / Solder mask slivers</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">35:53</span><span class="chapters-text">About exposed pads</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">42:48</span><span class="chapters-text">Thermal relief</span>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-bahl-290a724/">Amit's LinkedIn</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.protoexpress.com/pcb-design-guides/dfa-handbook/">DFA Handbook</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.protoexpress.com/">Sierra Circuits</a></li>
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