This blog is Part 3 in a series that initiates designing prototype circuits from home. Part 1 [1] introduced the concept whereas Part 2 [2] addressed schematic capture (using National Instrument's ...

If your department is in a high-growth area or in need of replacing numerous fire stations, one approach to developing multiple fire stations is using a prototype fire station design process. Often, ...

Something that becomes abundantly clear as you progress through the senior design project is that an idea “on paper” often does not fully translate physically in the prototyping phase. Because at this ...

Back in 2010, Bob Pease sent me a couple pictures of some prototype printed circuit boards (PCBs) he had made in the early 1960s. Pease got to be a great analog engineer because he would hack away at ...

Design is an iterative process. The more quickly you can test ideas and make improvements, the faster you reach the finished product. That's where prototyping comes in. It is an iterative process of ...