Highlights this week: 🏅 2023 Top Links!
📝 Featured Article: Git-for-Hardware guide by AllSpice.
🎤 2023 Top Interview: Q&A with Ariel Briner of Electron Labs.
🔗 Last week’s most-clicked link: “What Every EE Student Must Know” – light holiday reading from former UBuffalo PhD student, Ali Al Qaraghuli.
Happy New Year!!!! Here are the most-clicked links for 2023 ✨ 🎉 🎆:
- ‘Capacitors Demystified’ – handy and intuitive reference from a Stanford EE133 Analog Communications course. Also from the same course, some basic soldering tips.
- Sandy Munro does an over-the-shoulder design review of a Cybertruck 48V control board with Head of Low Voltage Pete Bannon. One fascinating insight: to avoid purchasing connectors they use individual thru-hole pins in a matrix pattern. The pins gain structure once mated into the housing.
- Another incredible EMI visualization in Blender (do not run high-speed signal lines underneath a stainless-steel stiffener) this time using results from Ansys HFSS.
- Reference reading list on a wide variety of analog electronics topics, compiled by the course staff of the Introductory Analog Electronics Laboratory course at MIT. Our personal favorite is the Analog Circuits Cookbook (pdf version here).
- Biricha has a treasure trove of videos intuitively explaining complex electronics concepts. Here’s a great video explaining the fundamentals of power supply design with drawing + experimental demonstration of inductor back-emf.
- Ferrite beads demystified by Analog Devices explains the operating principle of this common component. In short, ferrite beads dissipate radio frequency energy over a wide spectrum band.
- Tesla released their original Roadster schematics last week. This engineer further analyzes the Battery Management System.
- Check out more great links and all former issues in our archive.
One Interesting Picture 📸: Picture from James Pawson’s "Graphic Guide to EMC".
