Screaming Circuits tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-516248 2010-03-18T08:56:10-07:00 TypePad Screaming Circuits is going to ESC tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c008a53ef0120a90539e2970b 2010-03-18T08:56:10-07:00 2010-03-18T08:56:10-07:00 Screaming Circuits will be exhibiting at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose this April. The ESC exhibition runs April 27, 28 and 29 and Screaming Circuits will be in booth 827. As usual, the show will be held at... Screaming Circuits Mysteries of Engineering tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c008a53ef01310fa3b4dd970c 2010-03-16T15:11:19-07:00 2010-03-16T15:15:11-07:00 I (and many, many of us, presumably) have been reading more about all of the Toyota woes and the to-date unanswerable questions. Still, so much of the material written about the issues seems to be coming from the untrained. Certainly,... Screaming Circuits Thermal Mass Follow Up tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c008a53ef01310f61a0d8970c 2010-03-04T09:01:39-08:00 2010-03-04T08:59:59-08:00 RoHS has been with the electronics manufacturing world for quite a while now but there is still a lot of issues and uncertainty associated with it. As I wrote not long ago, even parts that are supposedly compliant can in... Screaming Circuits Beagleboard Innovation tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c008a53ef01310f5a7c3e970c 2010-03-03T12:29:00-08:00 2010-03-03T12:29:00-08:00 Open source hardware makes me happy. Open source has been around in the software world for a long time, but it's still fairly new in the hardware dimension. I think 2009 might just be the year that OSHW reached critical... Screaming Circuits More Thermal Mass Issues tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c008a53ef0120a8d9999f970b 2010-02-26T14:03:41-08:00 2010-02-26T14:03:41-08:00 Yesterday I wrote about some thermal mass related traps. Here's another one we see now and then. The top image shows good flat-topped caps. The bottom and inset has overheated bulged and damaged caps. These caps are RoHS compliant -... Screaming Circuits Thermal Mass tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c008a53ef0120a8d31c0c970b 2010-02-25T09:07:34-08:00 2010-02-26T15:18:58-08:00 I mentioned thermal mass in a recent post and was thinking over my oatmeal that its a subject deserving of more attention. That's more attention to thermal mass, not to oatmeal. Although, oatmeal is a pretty healthy food so it... Screaming Circuits Toyota is as Toyota does tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c008a53ef0120a8cf7284970b 2010-02-24T13:53:25-08:00 2010-02-24T15:59:04-08:00 Everyone else seems to be writing about Toyota sudden acceleration problems, so I should probably do that too. Or should I? Personally, I have absolutely no solid information about what's going on with Toyota cars. There's an awful lot written,... Screaming Circuits IPC-A-610 Class III Assembly tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c008a53ef012877b5ebe5970c 2010-02-18T13:04:01-08:00 2010-02-18T13:04:35-08:00 The Screaming Circuits website will now offers instant online quoting and ordering of prototype and short-run production PCB assembly built and inspected to IPC-A-610 Class III standards. By default, Screaming Circuits assembles and inspects to IPC-A-610 Class II, but with... Screaming Circuits Foot Prints tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c008a53ef012877afaf66970c 2010-02-17T10:04:13-08:00 2010-02-17T10:04:13-08:00 I write a fair amount about component foot prints / land patterns / CAD library components - whatever you call them. What are you supposed to call them anyway? I've heard them called all three of those things and a... Screaming Circuits Is Geek Cool? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c008a53ef0128778a768b970c 2010-02-10T12:59:42-08:00 2010-02-10T16:01:29-08:00 When I was young, "Geek" was not cool. Neither was "Nerd". Working on cars was cool as was logging and shooting Bambi's uncles with high powered rifles, at least where I came from things were that way. On the other... Screaming Circuits