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Fashionable and Functional Wearable Technology for Senior Citizens

Senior Citizens Wearable Technologies that are Fashionable and Functional Have you checked the year on your smartwatch recently? It’s the year 2017 and while I see a lot of young people walking around with wearable technology for elderly, I don’t see many of that age bracket with them. That represents an opportunity as the US population is aging and many more people will enter the elderly demographic in the next several years. Older adults need wearables for different reasons than their younger compatriots. They’re Read Article

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What Causes Ringing on a PCB and How to Solve It

PCB Ringing: What Causes and How to Reduce Ringing In Circuit Boards Digital circuits are particularly sensitive to ringing effects. Editorial credit: Dikiiy / Shutterstock.com In my very first electrical engineering lab, we built a printed circuit to debounce the output of a switch. I remember seeing the original jumpy signal and then the debounced output on the screen of an oscilloscope. I felt a profound sense of unease that something so innocuous in our lives could be so...messy. It’s a good thing that my Read Article

How a Single Ground Connection Messed up 100 Units of Customized MP3 Players Technology is pretty great and it has definitely made certain things in life easier. However, when you’re juggling parenting, coding, electronics design and occasionally writing an article like this. Sometimes even the coolest apps can’t mitigate the stress we experience in a day. For example, this morning I accidentally mistook salt for sugar and mixed it into my child’s favorite porridge. One small mistake on my part and suddenly my 5-year-old Read Article

PCB Design for Manufacturing: Prevent Via Defects by Talking to Your Manufacturer: PCB Design Tips & Tricks - Altium Audio Bites

PCB Design for Manufacturing: Prevent Via Defects by Talking to Your Manufacturer: PCB Design Tips & Tricks - Altium Audio Bites Altium Audio Bites, giving you bite-sized information that's easy to digest and apply to your everyday design tasks. From our PCB Design Tips & Tricks audio series here is: PCB Design for Manufacturing: Prevent Via Defects by Talking to Your Manufacturer. All our audio series are from real PCB designers in the field, detailing their day to day problems and experiences. We hope you can learn from this as much as we have. Give it a listen and let Read Article

Switching vs Linear Voltage Regulator

Switching vs Linear Voltage Regulator: What’s the Best Choice for Your Power Management Circuit? Have you ever had a capacitor explode in front of you? That’s how I started my career in electronics design. I also messed up the power budget calculation for what was initially pitched as a “simple” project. The end result was a PCB prototype with a red hot voltage regulator that was capable of frying an egg...or worse. Since then, I’ve come to realize that design elegance and sophistication matters little. If you make an error when configuring Read Article

The IoT is Developing New Technologies for Senior Citizens and Aging in Place My grandmother has lived down the street from my parents for the past 7 years. She moved down there after it became apparent she had Alzheimer’s disease and my parents realized she couldn’t live alone anymore. However, technology has allowed her to live a semi-independent life. My mother uses nanny cams to make sure my grandma is safe and happy and goes down to the house whenever grandma needs help. This arrangement has kept my grandmother out of Read Article

Wearable Technology in the Future Will Be Seamless and Convenient

Wearable Technology in the Future Will Be Seamless and Convenient When I was younger I was a bit of a nerd, and I guess I still am. The most visible sign of my nerdiness was my fashion sense or lack of it. Tall socks, cargo shorts, and a brown Pacman hoodie that I wore in every season, except summer, made up my daily wardrobe. I was simply more interested in gizmos and gadgets than I was in looking good. I’m still more interested in electronic devices than clothes, but the line between the two is beginning to Read Article

Rockstar PCB Designer and SI Guru Rick Hartley

Rockstar PCB Designer and SI Guru Rick Hartley Warner: Welcome back, Rick. The first time we met, we were ranting about how we both wished more designers would spend some time visiting their board suppliers and learn more about how boards are manufactured. What other pieces of advice would you give to an engineer or PCB designer today? Hartley: It's interesting you say that. Back in the '77-’78 time frame, when I first became a printed, one of the fabricators that our company used sat me and Read Article

Badgerloop’s Run for Hyperloop Glory Captures the Attention of Elon Musk

Badgerloop’s Run for Hyperloop Glory Captures the Attention of Elon Musk Team Badgerloop at the June Pod II Reveal In 2013, Elon Musk introduced the concept of a Hyperloop transit system in a white paper. He proposed a completely open source approach to its development and invited universities to participate in a pod competition. SpaceX funded the construction of a near-mile subscale version of a vacuum tube in which to trial pods for the competition. For the first competition, only 3 pods would earn an opportunity to Read Article

How Smart Technology Eases Parkinson's Disease

How Smart Tech Electronics Is Used for Combat Against Parkinson's Disease This past week I went home to Toronto to visit my parents. My grandfather, who is 87-years-old was recently diagnosed with old age dementia and had his driver’s license taken away. While my family was relieved to have him off the road, he was devastated by the loss of independence. That, however, changed one day when I went to pick him up from his house. I arrived to find the house empty, but his car was still in his driveway. It turns out that Read Article

How NASA Plans to Use 3D Printed Circuit Board Technology

How NASA Plans to Use 3D PCB Technology and Designs for Space Missions Editorial credit: Tony Craddock / Shutterstock.com Have you noticed how a 3D model has become a phenomenon? People seem to want to 3D print anything they can now. Maybe the 3D printing craze will collide with the Internet of Things and we’ll get a printed smart fork. While other people are writing about the 50 best things you can make with them and then throw away, I’m going to tell you how NASA hopes to use 3D printing. Between a rocket Read Article