Enclosures

I recently went on a bit of a shopping spree and ended up with a pile of new hardware to play with. Somewhere in that pile was this RP2350 board from Waveshare with a …

using pico keys on rp2350 dev board.

After being around 3D printers for almost a decade, I finally purchased my first personal machine: the Prusa Core One kit. I’ve assembled a Prusa MK3 at work before, so I …

PCB material is not something you think a lot about when you are doing your low to medium complexity. When you start with high speed material, it’s important to …

This discussion pops up from time to time. Here is the TLDR. For low speed signals, it really doesn’t matter what you use. For high speed 45 angled traces are better than …

Whether the wire or trace is 10mm long or a mile long the characteristic impedance remains the same provided there is no change in the geometry. Resistance increases as …

It’s such a small thing to add and yet it’s forgotten. All PCB must have some way of mounting the board inside an enclosure. In cases where the PCB has …

The first thing you should do after importing the net list to your PCB design tool, is to define the rules. The rules definitions actually start at the schematic design …

Beware of placing connectors on the board. When you place connectors on board, its easy to forget about the size of the connecting wire. When placing the connectors on …

When you place LEDs on the board, add them to the edge of the PCB. It’s even better if you place an edge lit LED. In one of my designs I placed the LEDs in the …