KiCad 6 introduced some new features that make PCB art and creating badges easier. In this blog, I'll present an outline for creating a PCB badge with electronics, a complex outline, and graphics.
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KiCad has always had simple tools for creating board outlines but Version 6 now allows SVG vector graphic files to be easily imported. The benefits of using SVG files include:
Access to powerful graphic applications outside of K...
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Our last few years have significantly impacted the state of employment. Now, along with widespread vaccines in the US, Microsoft’s 2021 Work Trend Index is forecasting a shift in our job model from remote to h...
KiCad recently released Version 6 and I've been playing around with it this week. After the initial irritation of little things that have changed like the new icons and learning where the design rules are located, I'm finding my ...
The Arc Institute has partnered with Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco to provide long-term research funding to eliminate the amount of time scientists waste seeking grants and holding fundraisers. (Image credit: Arc Institute)
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Trade unions have been around since the Assyrian empire ruled Mesopotamia in 2334 BC and created common standards for length, area, volume, height and time. Those standards were used by artisan guilds to build ships and guaran...
Some time ago I bought the M5Stack CoreInk board. This board has a nice e-ink display, ESP32 SoC, built-in battery and easy access to GPIOs. My initial purpose was to use it in some experiments or when needed make a quick solution to test other pro...
Reason for the Design Challenge:
Introduction
My Idea for this design Challenge will be to Research, design and Implement an Environment Reliability Monitor (ERM). The Software will be run on the 2 supplied Arduino boards that will be placed in the s...
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Better keep better notes of your work! Could be a piece of historical importance some day.
On November 23rd, Albert Einstein and Michele Besso’s rare 54-page manuscript was sold to an unnamed private indivi...
Developers or anyone interested in improving their coding skills can participate in the Advent of Code challenge. (Image Credit: Advent of Code)
It's that time of year again! I almost forgot about it. Last year’s was interesting.
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Received a couple of swag bags recently containing some awesome things (even though I picked the contents of one of them!)
Firstly, a thingy91 from a recent webinar, along with a Silicon Labs Thunderboard Sense 2, an ATTINY1614 8-bit MCU, another dan...
When you log-in to the community site the landing page has these tabs. Question: What Blogs, Forums, Docs are culled to generate the listing?
I assumed all of blogs, forums and docs content but my current work has proven otherwise. I pos...
I opened my cassette deck today, to remove the dust it collected.I took some photos:
It's grown a beard:
The inside is perfectly clean, but the cassette well has collected a lot of lint. A bit surprising, because other gear in my...
Introduction
Here's a curious waveform. How do you think I did that?
At first glance it looks like the output of a DAC driven from an incrementing counter, but it's not. Instead, I have a digital part (a CPLD), producing a simple stream of pulses, a...
DeepMind partnered with the Met Office to advance Nowcasting science and accurately predicting rainfall within a two-hour time window. (Image credit: Pixabay) This is the first time I’ve been worried about AI taking a job over completely. It’s ...
The ESA is sending these Raspberry Pi computers to the ISS. (Image Credit: RPi Foundation) Raspberry Pi enthusiasts can send their code to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year, following 2015’s Astro Pi challenge. That Pri...
Image credit: Digital Citizen Fund I've been following this story from the beginning. It's moved so fast. But, I think they are safe now... Here's the story. Following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and subsequent Taliban ...
Stack Overflow’s 2021 developer survey reveals that coders hate the COBOL programming language the most. (Image Credit: Pakata Goh/Unsplash) I can’t say I dislike any one programming language. Matlab was annoying in school, I suppose. C#, maybe....
Earn Certificates from Our Workshops / Webinars
From the request of our members we're trialling something new (for us). Often we're asked "hey, can I get a certificate for attending the webinar?" and we were like "that&#...
Material Focus launched a campaign in Glasgow that focuses on recycling and reusing e-waste. This solution could help slow down the impact of rare earth mineral extraction. (Image Credit: Remade Network) Material Focus, a non-profit organization...
Using the device, the man was able to speak at a rate of 15 words per minute. Researchers say this could be a major breakthrough for computer-mediated communication. (Image credit: UCSF) I love developments like this. What a step forward. P...
Hello everyone, I want to introduce a new member to the community. nwinhold Nicholas Winhold, my son, joined us yesterday. He is wanting to learn electronics and designing so he came to the best place. Proud dad, Dale Winhold
A man paralyzed from the neck down imagined writing with a pen. The implants read his writing thoughts and displayed them on screen. (Image Credit: Stanford University) Stanford University researchers have developed a brain-computer interface ca...
