TechCrunch | Startup and Technology NewsCavela lands $6.6M to help brands beat pre-tariff manufacturing costs
Kathy BrysonThe same reason it's hard to switch to 'green' products - most of us don't have the extra cash
What a Texas showerhead salesman discovered about 'Made in the USA' labels https://buff.ly/CxVJ7s4
#shopping #economy #tarrifs #supplychain #manufactuing #commerce
SignetIn the end, all the #3DPrinted cases came out acceptably well. It was fun to make these incredibly small tweaks all day yesterday to get the model and printer settings tuned up to be the best quality possible.
#manufactuing #signet devices is #fun
OpenForumAustralia’s National Reconstruction Fund
Australia’s federal parliament has approved a A$15 billion National Reconstruction Fund to revitalise the nation’s dwindling manufacturing sector, so here are 3 ways to ensure it works. #Manufactuing
https://www.openforum.com.au/forums/australias-national-reconstruction-fund/
hackaday unofficialDesigning Electronics That Work
[Hunter Scott] who has graced these pages a fair few times, has been working on electronics startups for the past ten years or so, and has picked up a fair bit of experience with designing and building hardware. Those of us in this business seem to learn the same lessons, quite often the hard way; we call it experience. Wouldn't it be nice to get up that learning curve a little quicker, get our hardware out there working sooner with less pain, due to not falling into the same old traps those before us already know about? The problem with the less experienced engineer is not their lack of talent, how quickly they can learn, nor how much work they can get done in a day, but simply that they don 't know what they don't know. There's no shame in that, it's just a fact of life. [Hunter] presents for us, the Guide to Designing Electronics that Work.
The book starts at the beginning. The beginning of the engineering process that is; requirements capturing, specifications, test planning and schedule prediction. This part is hard to do right, and this is where the real experience shows. The next section moves onto component selection and prototyping advice, with some great practical advice to sidestep some annoying production issues. Next there's the obvious section on schematic and layout with plenty of handy tips to help you to that all important final layout. Do not underestimate how hard this latter part is, there is plenty of difficulty in getting a good performing, minimal sized layout, especially if RF applications are involved.
The last few sections cover costing, fabrication and testing. These are difficult topics to learn, if up till now all you've done is build prototypes and one-offs. These are the areas where many a kickstarter engineer has fallen flat.
Designing Electronics That Work doesn't profess to be totally complete, nor have the answer to everything, but as the basis for deeper learning and getting the young engineer on their way to a manufacturable product, it is a very good starting point in our opinion.
The book has been around a little while, and the latest version is available for download right now, on a pay what-you-want basis, so give it a read and you might learn a thing or two, we're pretty confident it won't be time wasted!