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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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            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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            <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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        The best animation to explain crosstalk I have ever seen! Thank you Eric.
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                <span class="chapters-time">00:01</span><span class="chapters-text">Have You Ever Had Problems with Crosstalk</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">04:58</span><span class="chapters-text">How Do You Get Crosstalk through Electric Fields</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">05:17</span><span class="chapters-text">How Do You Get Current through a Capacitor</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">06:52</span><span class="chapters-text">Changing Electric Field</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">07:31</span><span class="chapters-text">Displacement Current</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">10:33</span><span class="chapters-text">Reference Plane</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">11:38</span><span class="chapters-text">What About Two Layer Pcb</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">14:42</span><span class="chapters-text">Electrically Long Interconnect</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">19:18</span><span class="chapters-text">Flash Animation</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">19:48</span><span class="chapters-text">Capacity Coupled Current</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">22:43</span><span class="chapters-text">The Coupling Region</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">26:19</span><span class="chapters-text">Inductive Coupling</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">27:46</span><span class="chapters-text">The Direction of the Induced Current Loop</span>
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                <span class="chapters-time">30:32</span><span class="chapters-text">Inductively Coupled Current</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">46:34</span><span class="chapters-text">Ratio the Foreign Crosstalk Coefficient</span>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-bogatin-368860/">Eric Bogatin</a></li>
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What Every PCB Designer Should Know – Crosstalk Explained (with Eric Bogatin)

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        Do you know why PCB Manufacturer may use tin to protect tracks and VIAs when your PCB is manufactured? Do you know how exactly PCB VIA plating is done?
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">00:03</span><span class="chapters-text">Intro</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">02:36</span><span class="chapters-text">How a Pcb Is Manufactured</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">04:25</span><span class="chapters-text">Remove the Drill Smear</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">06:00</span><span class="chapters-text">Electro Plating</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">06:46</span><span class="chapters-text">Electro Less Plating</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">07:01</span><span class="chapters-text">Electroless Plating</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">08:04</span><span class="chapters-text">How Do You Get Copper To Stick to Fiberglass</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">09:31</span><span class="chapters-text">Micro Etch</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">12:14</span><span class="chapters-text">Silver Has a Higher Redox Potential than Tin</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">15:43</span><span class="chapters-text">Accelerator Bath</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">19:14</span><span class="chapters-text">Board after Electroless Plating</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">20:27</span><span class="chapters-text">Electron Lighting and Electroplating</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">23:43</span><span class="chapters-text">Electroplating</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">28:40</span><span class="chapters-text">Protect the Copper inside the via Barrels during Etching</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">29:57</span><span class="chapters-text">Copper Plating</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">30:41</span><span class="chapters-text">Electroplating Tin</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">33:18</span><span class="chapters-text">Bad Plating</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">36:29</span><span class="chapters-text">Chemicals That Are Added to the Electroless Bath</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">42:33</span><span class="chapters-text">The Electroplating</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">46:35</span><span class="chapters-text">Bare Bones Pcbs</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">59:46</span><span class="chapters-text">Electroplated Gold</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">1:03:20</span><span class="chapters-text">Microvias Edge Plating and Castellated Holes</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">1:09:24</span><span class="chapters-text">Edge Plating</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">1:15:24</span><span class="chapters-text">Can You Do Plating at Home</span>
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            <li class="chapters-list-item">
                <span class="chapters-time">1:16:54</span><span class="chapters-text">Equipment</span>
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            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.kaileyshara.com/">Kailey Shara</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaileyshara/">Kailey Shara LinkedIn</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.4pcb.com/media/presentation-how-to-build-pcb.pdf">Advanced Circuits PDF</a></li>
            <li class="links-list-item"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIV0icM_Ujo&ab_channel=Eurocircuits">Eurocircuits - how to make a 4-layer PCB (full version)</a></li>
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How Does Copper Get Inside of a VIA Hole in Your PCB – Do you know this? (with Kailey Shara)

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        What is the most important thing for you when selecting chips for your boards?
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