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47:57 Lee Ritchey: PCB Design Paradigm Shift - AltiumLive 2017 Watch Video

Drones, Robots and Thermal Management: OnTrack Newsletter December 2017

Drones, Robots and Thermal Management: OnTrack Newsletter December 2017 On Track Newsletter December 2017 VOL. 1 No 9 Welcome to the December issue of Altium Designer’s On Track Newsletter. In celebration of our far reaching global community, we are shining the spotlight on an impressive PCB designer from Norway this month. Tor-Anders Lunder designs boards for a startup company called Staaker which makes a tracking drone with a camera mount for sports enthusiasts. In Maker Space, we highlight a group of Brazilian Read Article

IoT Security Vulnerabilities and Buffer Overflow

Internet of Things Security Vulnerabilities: It's All About That Buffer Overflow I follow a bunch of animal and nature publications, and recently the phrase ‘zombie ants,’ kept popping up in my feed. I decided to do a little digging and discovered that there’s a type of fungi - Ophiocordyceps - whose life cycle involves infecting ants that walk across its spores with fungal cells that infiltrate the ant’s central nervous system and essentially take over the ant. Once they have the ant "under its control", the fungus-infected Read Article

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5:27 This was AltiumLive 2017 Watch Video

5:36 How Embedded Software Makes Farming More Efficient - TASKING and DISTEK Watch Video

Azevedo the ITAndroids: Humanoid Robot Soccer Team

Azevedo the ITAndroids: Humanoid Robot Soccer Design Team Judy Warner: How long has the ITAndroids team been in existence, and how did it get started? Arthur Azevedo: The ITAndroids team was created in 2005 by Jackson Matsura. Back then he was a masters student, now he is a professor in the electronics department. Two undergraduate students and another master’s student joined the team. They won the Latin America RoboCup (LARC) 2D Soccer Simulation that year. They quickly became one of the Latin American Read Article

Meet PCB Designer Tor-Anders Lunder and the Self-tracking Drone He Helped Develop at Staaker

Meet PCB Designer Tor-Anders Lunder and the Self-tracking Drone He Helped Develop at Staaker Judy Warner: Tor-Anders, will you please share a little bit about your journey to becoming a PCB and how you ended up at Staaker? Tor-Anders Lunder: Sure. After my master’s degree at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim I had already been doing some projects involving PCB design and was curious about the whole process from design to assembly, and wanted to learn more in this Read Article

Finding the Perfect World for Multilayer PCB Design

Finding the Perfect World for Multilayer PCB Design and Fabrication I have always been a huge Clint Eastwood fan. Dirty Harry always seemed to be a little too quick on the draw for an urban twentieth-century environment, but The Man with No Name—he was perfect for the ruggedness and lawlessness of his time. Obviously, I always rooted for him to beat up the bully, outdraw the outlaw, or get the girl, but the most intriguing thing was that he was usually quick to make a decision. Of course, the results varied Read Article

Take Your Shoes Off: Modular Design Tips for Obsolescence Management

Take Your Shoes Off: Modular Design Tips for Obsolescence Management I’ve noticed that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who have a large armoire full of lightly-used shoes to choose from for their daily activities, and those who have a few (too) well-worn pairs of shoes that they are squeaking out until the toe-holes become intolerable. I am among the latter, and unfortunately for my current pair of sneakers - it is getting time to replace them. But there’s always a golden period to replace old Read Article

Give Them No Quarter: Preventing PIC Microcontroller Code from Being Duplicated

Give Them No Quarter: Code Protection in PIC Microcontrollers for Duplication Prevention Copying, from all understandings, seems like a disingenuous and sub-par strategy for any solution you need; from taking a test in school, to catching up with your friends, it is rare to find a moment where you would be rewarded for simply copying a message or answer. Imitating, on the other hand, is an encouraged practice in most professional industries - follow the guidelines and roadwork laid out before you so as to avoid the tedious work of Read Article

Design Tips For Incorporating GSM Modules into an Embedded System

Design Tips For Incorporating GSM Modules into Embedded Systems As loving and rewarding as a family is, sometimes they can be a pain. My aunt, for example, refuses to communicate with my grandfather. They live less than thirty minutes apart; however, refuse to see each other. This makes coordinating visiting my family unnecessarily difficult as, often, I need to make separate day plans in order to see each so-to-speak faction. But what’s most stressful, is that often it leaves the middleman communication role Read Article

17:51 Creating Layer Numbers and Stacking Stripes in Altium Designer Click to download the PCB Library files. Watch to see exactly how you can create layer numbers and stacking stripes in Altium Designer, in this episode of OnTrack with Altium. In this Episode, Chris Carlson is demonstrating how to create Layer Numbers and Stacking Stripes in Altium Designer and answering questions from several users from another recent episode. We hope this answers your questions and please feel free to connect and let us know Watch Video

Paint by Numbers: Solder Paste Stencil Design Guidelines To Reduce Shortages

Paint by Numbers: Solder Paste Stencil Design Guidelines To Reduce Shortages I’ve never had much artistic talent, but when I was a kid I loved those paint-by-numbers kits. Up until I saw those I’d only used watercolors, but I was enthralled with the thick, slow flow of the paint. I may also have killed some brain cells from breathing all the fumes. I was completely obsessed with keeping the paint in the lines, so I didn’t use the brush they gave you. Instead, I traced the outlines with a toothpick that had barely been Read Article

Untangle Yourself with an SD Card Bootloader

Untangle Yourself with an SD Card Bootloader Like Ray LaMontagne, I’ve got trouble. Smartphone trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. I can figure out the apps I want, and I’ve got the games I need (wait, I might have those priorities backward), but transferring all my images and data is a bit more of a pain. There always seems to be music that gets left behind or images that, for whatever reason, refuse to back up. I consider myself pretty savvy, but when I got a new smartphone I was starting Read Article

6:46 Make your Product Fit that Unusual Shape John Magyar, an expert in complex PCBs, highlights how new Challenges in the Electronics Industry dictate new ways of designing PCBs. Learn more about efficient PCB design tools at: https://www.altium.com See All OnTrack Newsletters here. Watch Video

Instructions Are Easy When You Write Them: The PCB Assembly Drawing

Instructions Are Easy When You Write Them: The PCB Assembly Drawing learn about the basics of assembly drawing. Read Article