Altium Designer Projects

Browse our library of resources to learn more about PCB Design Projects built using Altium Designer, Altium 365, and Nexus. Our projects cover a wide range of applications where we discuss layouts, component creation, manufacturing, and team collaboration.

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Lid Assembly Design Part II

Concept Phase – Lid Assembly Design Part 2 We are continuing the journey through lid assembly design on our Open Source Laptop project. Designing a test adapter — Layout Now we have to put all of our work in an actual hardware design. The layout of this board is straightforward, as we only have one high-speed interface to pay special attention to. The DisplayPort interface can de-skew up to 20UI per specification. UI is short for Unit Interval which is the reciprocal of the bit rate. For Read Article

Lid Assembly Design Part I

Concept Phase – Lid Assembly Design Part 1 Welcome back to the open-source laptop project! In this update we will move one step closer to the design phase of the project. This is the first hands-on experience with one of the core components of the laptop — the display panel! We will decide which display panel to use, how we can integrate it into the lid, and we are going to design, assemble, and test a small DisplayPort to embedded DisplayPort adapter to light up the screen for the first Read Article

Chat GPT for Altium Scripting

Using ChatGPT for Altium Scripting In this article Ari Mahpour talks about how to best utilize ChatGPT for Altium Scripting in the DelphiScript language. Read Article

laptop part 2

Concept Phase – Initial CAD Design This installment of the open source laptop project development log will walk you through the early concept and brainstorming phase. The first step is to collect the ideas and requirements for the end device and condense them as best as possible into a simplified draft. It is not important in this stage to pay too much attention to the technical details—it is about laying a foundation i.e. creating a framework that can be subdivided and refined in Read Article

Inspire and Educate through Open-Source Hardware Products

Inspire and Educate through Open-Source Hardware Products Lukas Henkel will share with us what made him interested in designing electronics, some details about the development of his Open-source laptop project, and will even give us a sneak peek of the actual design development on Altium Designer. Read Article

laptop

Introduction to Open Source Laptop Project Ever dreamt of designing your own open-source laptop? For a while now I´ve been fascinated by this idea. As you can probably imagine, this is a monumental task that will require a lot of time and resources. Working alone on a project of this size makes matters even more difficult. So, why embark on such an adventure–especially with a product design that has already been manufactured and sold by the millions for years on end? {"preview_thumbnail" Read Article

Using ChatGPT for Automated Testing

Using ChatGPT for Automated Testing In this article Ari Mahpour talks about ChatGPT and how to utilize the service to help with automated testing. Read Article

Getting Started with MicroPython and the Raspberry Pi Pico

Getting Started with MicroPython and the Raspberry Pi Pico In this article Ari Mahpour introduces the MicroPython programming language and how it can be used on the Raspberry Pi Pico, specifically for hardware engineers. Read Article

Dual Rail Voltage Supply

Dual Rail Voltage Supply Ever worried about using negative voltages? Join Mark Harris building an ultra low noise dual rail power supply in this project series article creating a regulator designed to power the highest performance split rail operational amplifiers. Read Article

Altium Designer Quick-Start Tutorial Part 2

Altium Designer Quick-Start Tutorial Part 2 Learn how to design a simple, two-layer PCB in Altium Designer all the way from project creation, schematic capture, PCB design, to generating manufacturing files. A great place to start if you haven’t used Altium Designer or any ECAD tool before. Read Article

Analog Solar Tracker Project

Analog Solar Tracker Project Learn about light sensors while building an analog solar panel tracking system with Mark Harris. This open-source project covers multi-channel design, window comparators, driving motors, and photosensors. Read Article

Nucleo Shield Multi-Board Design

Nucleo Shields Multi-Board Design Learn how easy it is to create multi-board projects in this practical project article. Mark Harris covers why you would break larger boards into sub assemblies, and connection options between sub assembly boards. Read Article

EnviroSense WiFi Weather Station Multiboard Design

Wireless Module Designs: EnviroSense WiFi Weather Station Multiboard Get started with surface mounted sub-assemblies in this hands-on wireless module designs project. Mark Harris demonstrates the advantages of multi-board assemblies when creating your own surface mount module. Read Article

Laptop part III

Concept Phase – Cooling and Airflow Part 1 In this installment of the open-source laptop project, we will take a closer look at the cooling system. First, we will focus on the airflow inside the device and find out what we need to consider to meet the requirements defined in the previous article. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/O0xn2-kPL4o.jpg?itok=SkZpEUXp","video_url":"https://youtu.be/O0xn2-kPL4o","settings":{ Read Article

16:28 USB to Serial-Over-RJ45 Module Serial interfaces are still used to control networking equipment with Ethernet. Here’s how these devices work through an RJ45 port on your PCB. Watch Video

KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit

Getting Started with the Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit In this article Ari Mahpour unboxes and configures the Xilinx Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter for the first time. Read Article

Creating Components in Altium 365 at Warp Speed

Creating Components in Altium 365 at Warp Speed In this article Ari Mahpour shows you how to create components in Altium 365 leveraging free resources in the cloud. Read Article