Electronics & Production

Announcing my "Small Scale Electronics Production" Book

My 2003 Low Cost SMD Soldering Guide

Intel LGA1700 (12th/13th gen, i9 3900k) Top Resistors/Capacitors

If you’re a bit careless with your CPU (especially if e.g., delidding it) you can knock these resistors off the topside. From measuring a known-good…

Analog Discover Pro Teardown

NOTE: This was going to be a twitter thread but twitter was down? So this is a lazy blog post… Analog Discovery Pro (from Digilent Website) Anyone…

MeatBag PnP - Simple Pick-n-Place

Have you ever hand-built a PCB prototype with lots of parts? If so you'll know the annoyance of hand-building something from a big stack of Digi-Key…

A Low-Cost X-Y Scanner using 3D Printer

This summer, our summer intern Greg d'Eon made a quick project to build a X-Y Scanner from a 3D printer (by 'quick', I mean it took him less than 2…

Low-Cost SMD Soldering Setup

The following blog post shows some details of my SMD soldering process. This was based on a larger video I did (linked below) showing the entire…

ESC SV 2015 - USSSSSB: Talking USB From Python

At ESC 2015 SV I gave a talk on using USB From Python, see the talk description here. This blog post is serving as a placeholder to allow me to…

Experiments with Seek Thermal Camera

A while back I got a Seek thermal camera, as I wanted to use it for measuring electronics component temperatures. As part of a course I’m teaching at…

USB Inrush Testing

The USB spec has limits on the ‘inrush current’, which is designed to prevent you from having 2000uF of capacitance that must be suddenly charged…