Lithium batteries have become very popular in recent years, mostly due to EVs popping up everywhere. These batteries are perfect for storing higher energy levels with a very small footprint, but where there’s immense power, there’s an element of risk lurking! ...
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1: How To Design PCB in EasyEDA : Introduction
EasyEDA simplifies PCB design with cloud-based accessibility, collaborative tools, and a user-friendly interface. Usually, professional CAD software needs beefy computers, or at least decent hardware, to run most of its features. But in recent years, cloud-based tools have become very ...
How To Select The Best Footprint?
In the previous article we completed the schematic with ERC and prepared it for PCB development. But each symbol in the schematic is just a representation of the component and it does not contain the information about the physical properties ...
How To Prettify Your Schematic with Kicad 7.0
In the previous article, we made an average looking circuit using the schematic editor by using the bare minimum tools that KiCAD has to offer. In this article, we’ll discuss more interesting tools and make the same schematic more presentable. ...
How To Design a Circuit in KiCAD’s Schematic Editor
KiCAD is such an incredible software which is completely free! But those who are just getting started might get overwhelmed by the amount of options and settings it has to offer. So learning each tool without real world examples would ...
How To Use New Kicad User Interface
In the previous article we talk about what is KiCad and some of the tools it has to offer. In this article, we’ll try to explore more about KiCad, specially how to navigate around KiCad and how some of its tools ...
Introduction On How To Use Latest KiCad
It has just been a year since KiCad version 6.0 was launched and KiCad has already launched their version 7.0.0. on February, 2023. KiCad 7.0 comes with great new upgrades like orthogonal dragging, drag and drop, command line interface, text ...
New Launches in Adafruit Feather Series!
Adafruit has launched a trio of new boards, out of the three, two aim at those working on automotive or other CAN bus projects and one which gives you an easy way to hook a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller up ...
LinkMicro LM246MS Microscope For Soldering And Easy Repair
As an electronic enthusiast, hobbyist or a professional you understand the importance of magnification needed while assembling or examining electronics, especially working with SMD components. Therefore, a good magnifying device or an electronic microscope is needed. There are many microscopes ...
Beagleboards New Launch, Faster Than Ever Before
BeagleBoard.org, who are considered to be an open hardware, credit-card sized, low-power boards specialist, recently announced the launch of two new boards, namely, the compact Beagle Connect Freedom and the rapid prototyping BeaglePlay. The latter of the two is claimed ...