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How the Repeat SpaceX Dragon Capsule Launch to Space Station Will Change PCB Design
Do you ever look up at the moon and wonder what mysteries lie beyond? Every once in a while, while I’m gawking at the moon, a moving star catches my eye. The International Space Station (ISS) is occasionally visible from Earth and is a constant reminder of humankind’s achievements in space. SpaceX recently added another accomplishment to the list, by resupplying the ISS with a previously used capsule. SpaceX’s advancements in reusable spacecraft
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How the Repeat SpaceX Dragon Capsule Launch to Space Station Will Change PCB Design
Do you ever look up at the moon and wonder what mysteries lie beyond? Every once in awhile, while I’m gawking at the moon, a moving star catches my eye. The International Space Station (ISS) is occasionally visible from Earth and is a constant reminder of humankind’s achievements in space. SpaceX recently added another accomplishment to the list, by resupplying the ISS with a previously used capsule. SpaceX’s advancements in reusable spacecraft
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Why Increasing Design Complexity Requires the Best Professional PCB Design Software
Didn’t everything seem so simple when you were a kid? No job to work at, no mortgage to pay, and no kids of your own to wrangle. My main occupation was to run around outside and try not to get too dirty while playing. Now life is certainly better, but also quite a bit more complicated. Similarly, the PCB industry is also growing up and become more convoluted . Gone are the days of large, simple boards. Now everything has to be small, sleek, and
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Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery vs Lithium Ion For Embedded Systems
Two of the most popular battery choices for embedded systems are lithium-ion batteries (Li-Ion) and lithium iron phosphate batteries (Li-phosphate or LiFePO 4 ). These two types of batteries have very different charging and discharging characteristics, although they have similar chemistry and use some of the same materials. In some systems, you could use either type of battery, but each has its advantages in different applications, which can
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How Embedded Machine Learning Applications Will Benefit From 5G and the Cloud
Editorial credit: Anton_Ivanov / Shutterstock.com When I was studying late at night in college I often wished I had a cybernetic brain implant. Then I could just download any information I needed and instantly recall it later. No more studying, no more forgetting my girlfriend’s birthday, maybe I could even watch Netflix inside my own head. Sadly the illustrious electrical engineers who came before me designed Internet of Things (IoT) devices
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How Internet of Things Wireless Sensor Networks Can Benefit From Multi-Sensor Platforms
Some people like dogs or cats, but my family has always been a cat family. We have one important rule to keep us from graduating from a “crazy” cat family. We are not allowed to have more cats than we have family members. Sometimes we don’t want limits, but we still have to have them to keep things from getting out of hand. The same principle applies to the Internet of Things (IoT). While I do think many IoT devices are a bit overboard , their
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The Pros and Cons of Different LPWAN Networks for Your IoT Application
Right now, IoT is like a gladiator battle in the coliseum of market forces and public opinion. There are constant rankings of what protocol or stack to use, which IoT products are useful ( or not ), and who’s going to win each element of the burgeoning IoT ecosystem. The best part is that each of these little battles is also a decision that you must face or plan for in your next IoT design. Awesome, right? Lucky for you, I’ve already considered
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FIRST Robotics Competition Makes STEM Students into Superstars
Over 25 years ago, FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) founder and prolific inventor, Dean Kamen, envisioned a high school robotics competition that rivaled the energy and excitement of the Super Bowl. An event that would turn science students into superstars and infect them with an unshakeable passion for STEM activities and careers. Chris Jennings has an infectious enthusiasm for the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) , as well as a rich history
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Choosing a Compiler for Automotive Applications
Figure 1: The “car of the future” isn’t that far in the future! Compiler Capabilities for Automotive Applications Compiler capabilities are not equal across offerings in the automotive industry. Some compilers are built on Open Source compilers. At first glance, these look capable and inexpensive. However, those two words seldom go together in the same sentence, and certainly not here. While they are inexpensive, they have some major
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How the Evolution of Space Mission PCB Design Has Allowed SpaceX's Visions to Take Flight
Today, the new frontiers of spaceflight are explored by SpaceX. SpaceX is an ambitious venture to create a new reusable launch system and, ultimately, interplanetary travel. The most visible of these efforts is the Falcon series of rockets. Designed with the goals of reusability and reduced costs, the Falcon series is engineered around ease of manufacturing and assembly. What role does today’s printed circuit board technology, and the computing
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The Benefits of a Consistent Interface in Professional PCB Software
Software should utilize a common user interface that is consistent with the operating system environment. Nothing is quite as awkward as attempting to do something standard and not getting the expected outcome especially in the realm of Professional PCB Software. Keep your momentum, work with intuitive and professional PCB design tools. I think everyone can agree: it's important that any software shares a common user interface consistent with the
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A Cloudy Focus
There’s been some discussion on our new Forum about our plans for “all this cloudy stuff”. Some of you have asked why we have this focus. Some have questioned why we’re bothering when we can’t “even fix the so-and-so bug in the so-and-so editor in Altium Designer
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”. I think our response to this is to remind everyone that this is not about the software, but about what you do with it. It’s not about AltiumLive, but how you exploit AltiumLive
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Open Source OLED Watch
It's a great time to be an engineer and a designer. In keeping with the theme of Petr Tosovsky's Open Source Projects in our Altium Designer blog, we found another Open Source Hardware (OSHW) project which was so cool we wanted to share it with the community. In this blog, Ben Jordan interviews 4th year computer engineering student Jared Sanson about his awesome OLED watch (smart watch), which he designed the electronics for in Altium Designer
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How to Make History, One Rocket at a Time
As we celebrate SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft making history and achieving what was widely discounted as impossible just few years ago, we know that all that effort didn't come from a void, but rather from hard work, innovation, dedication, and of course utilizing the right tools to manage all the phases of their designs from the various disciplines. As my old man used to say - if you fail, keep trying until you make history (maybe not his exact
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Battling Your Power and Data Transmission Demands
As an industry, we have approached the increased power consumption and data transmission requirements differently depending on the application of our devices and peripherals. Wouldn’t it be great to have a simplified solution that everyone could use? Do your designs invariably require more components as you struggle to maintain an elegant design? As we seek to expand the capabilities of our devices, the arduous task of keeping our board designs
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Hardware Engineers Who Design Tomorrow
Everyone has a personal story about the things that brought them into hardware engineering. Mine stems from a desire to work on designing new technology to make people’s lives better. Designing new technologies can have ripple effects that you could never predict. What is your dream project? Learning to drive is one of the greatest experiences of my life. I grew up a couple miles from the Pacific Ocean in Southern California and remember driving
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The Transition of Transistors: A Transistor History Timeline
Even if you’re not an electrical engineer, chances are you still love technology and all it offers, whether it be for work or pleasure. We all get caught up in the buzz when a new processor comes out and hear things like how Intel is using a 14nm (nanometer) technology and has over a billion graphene transistors. But what exactly is this technology and for what device? Back to the Basics As complicated as the world of engineering can be
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