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Competitive Exoskeleton by Project March from the Delft Technical University Dream Team

Competitive Exoskeleton by Project March from the Delft Technical University Dream Team Judy Warner: Robbert, please tell us about your major at Delft Technical University and your role at Project March. Robbert de Lange: I’m studying civil engineering and my role on the Project March team is Acquisition and PR. Presently, I have taken off a full year of studies to focus full-time on Project March. Warner: What motivated you to take a full year off of your studies to invest in Project March? De Lange: Beyond all the academic Read Article

Mary Elizabeth McCulloch Developed Voz Box and Project Vive

Mary Elizabeth McCulloch Developed Voz Box and Project Vive Judy Warner: It’s so nice to talk with you, Mary Elizabeth! Please share your background, education and what inspired you to choose engineering as a vocation. Mary Elizabeth McCulloch: I was always good at science and math and I graduated from Penn State University with a biomedical degree in 2016. Both of my parents were very inspirational in my choice to pursue engineering. My Dad studied physics in college and is now an engineer who Read Article

Flex and Material Sets with Chris Hunrath

Flex and Material Sets with Chris Hunrath The rise in flex applications across all industries means opportunity for material suppliers to innovate and meet demand. Learn about flex material sets from material science expert Chris Hunrath. Read Article

John Watson, Senior PCB Designer at Legrand North America on Altium Enterprise Solutions

John Watson on Altium Enterprise Solutions Going Beyond PCB Design Curious what a professional PCB Designer thinks about Altium enterprise solutions and AltiumLive? Listen to the OnTrack Podcast to find out what John Watson thinks and how the new solutions can help your team. Read Article

OnTrack Newsletter May 2018

OnTrack Newsletter May 2018 On Track Newsletter May 2018 VOL. 2 No 2 Welcome to the May edition of the Altium OnTrack Newsletter! AltiumLive 2018: ANNUAL PCB DESIGN SUMMIT is coming in October to sunny San Diego, California and pre-registration is now open! By pre-registering now, you will qualify for a 10% early-bird discount once registration officially opens in June (Stay tuned for more information about our European conference). Once again, we will be featuring Read Article

DFA Tips from Duane Benson at Screaming Circuits

DFA Tips from Duane Benson at Screaming Circuits Looking for DFA Tips to optimize your PCB design before going to assembly? We have an expert point of view in this episode of OnTrack The PCB Design Podcast. Read Article

Lee Ritchey and High Speed Digital Design

Lee Ritchey and High Speed Digital Design Looking for expert views on High Speed Digital design and Signal Integrity? Learn from Lee Ritchey an industry premier authority on high speed PCB and system design on this OnTrack Podcast episode. Read Article

Upverter and The Future of Browser-Based PCB Design

Upverter and The Future of Browser-Based PCB Design Curious about the future of Upverter and browser-based PCB design? Tune in to the Altium Podcast for answers. In this episode of the OnTrack Podcast, Zak Homuth is special guest. Click to listen now. Read Article

David Carmody’s DFM Report Integrating Design and Assembly

David Carmody’s DFM Report Integrating Design and Assembly Want to learn about Design for Manufacturing (DFM)? In this Altium OnTrack Podcast episode David Carmody and Judy Warner talk about DFM Reports can proactively fix manufacturing issues. Listen in now. Read Article

Engineers Build A New Car From the Ground Up

Engineers Show Us How to Build A New Car From the Ground Up Rose Hulman FSAE Car Judy Warner: Tell us about your team, what you make, and where you compete. Anthony Lin: We are the Rose Grand Prix Engineering team from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and we design, build, and race a Formula style (open wheel open cockpit) race car from scratch every year. This year marks our 7th year in the competition with RGP-7 (name of our new car). We compete in the Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Read Article

Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Tips from Electronics Expert Duane Benson

Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Tips from Electronics Expert Duane Benson Judy Warner: Duane, please share briefly about your background in the electronics industry. Duane Benson: I first burned my fingers with a soldering iron when I was about fourteen. Though I was formally trained and started my career in software development, my first love has always been electronics. My early hardware projects included an electronic stethoscope used to listen through walls for termites chewing on wood, and a caller ID device Read Article

Why is Spread Glass popular? Chris Hunrath from Insulectro

Why is Spread Glass popular? Chris Hunrath from Insulectro Why is spread glass so popular and what material sets are best for different PCB designs? Listen to this Ontrack Podcast episode & get expert insights and learn about new materials from Chris Hunrath. Read Article

The Anniversary Edition OnTrack Newsletter April 2018

The Anniversary Edition OnTrack Newsletter April 2018 OnTrack Newsletter April 2018 VOL. 2 No 1 Welcome to the one-year anniversary edition of the Altium^® OnTrack newsletter! In celebration, our team decided to make this the reader’s choice edition by sharing the top three most read articles from Rock Stars and Superheroes and Makerspace for this past year. We also have a brand new video by Ben Jordan on Multi-board: Partitioning and Planning, and a fresh batch of Brain Food and Regional News below Read Article

Ambitious Students, Makers and Innovators

Ambitious Students, Makers and Innovators In the number three spot is a solar car team from the University of Waterloo in Toronto, Canada: The Midnight Sun Solar Car team. Relive the guts and the glory of this ambitious team. Congratulations, Midnight Sun Solar Team. Thank you for your pursuit of excellence and being an inspiration for our readers! Taking the number two spot is the New Jersey Institute of Technology SAE Baja team that earned first place in the endurance race, and 13th Read Article

Three Exceptional Professional PCB Designers

Three Exceptional Professional PCB Designers I've had the opportunity to interview several exceptional professionals in PCB Design this past year, which includes interviewing this popular group of engineers. Here are the most popular articles in our Professional PCB Designers series: In the number three spot is a beloved professional designer, BSEE, and a CID Master Instructor who also has a passion for golfing... Cherie Litson. Congratulations Cherie and thank you for contributing so much Read Article

The Square Kilometre Array Telescope and Multi-board PCB Design

The Square Kilometre Array Telescope and Multi-board PCB Design What is a Square Kilometre Array Telescope? Listen to this OnTrack Podcast with Judy Warner & hear from Omer Mahgoub of SKA Africa about the making of the largest and world's most sensitive telescope. Read Article

Model Copper Roughness Properly, a Discussion with Bert Simonovich

Model Copper Roughness Properly, a Discussion with Bert Simonovich Discover how to model copper roughness properly with insights from industry expert, Bert Simonovich. Nail down your design to achieve consistent result. Listen to this podcast episode to learn more. Read Article