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PCB Art – Scarab by Boldport

This may sound like a strange title but for many years Eurocircuits has been manufacturing PCB Art. What is PCB Art? Simply put it is a PCB’s that stand out from the ordinary and combines art with industrial electronics. We have been working with Saar Drimer (founder of Boldport) an electronic artist for many years. […]

White paper – Reliability comparison of RJ45 and Mini I/O

INDUSTRIAL ETHERNET CONNECTOR BENCHMARK Posted on behalf of TE connectivity, Den Bosch, The Netherlands Industrial IoT developments ask for smaller and more reliable connectors. Latency requirements will call for higher connection reliability in environmentally severe industrial applications with vibrations. Even for industrial IP20 applications the default connector of choice is typically the RJ45, which is originally […]

Why working together works for us both?

Why working together works for us both Saar Drimer is the Author of this Paper. Founder of Boldport Ltd Unit 35 IO Centre, Armstrong Road, London SE18 6RS, UK Tel: +44-7779-606-045, E-mail or visit the home page On paper we’re unlikely collaborators. Eurocircuits is focused on common manufacturing sweet-spots while I, at Boldport, break traditional circuit board design banalities […]

Low-cost calibrator

Low-cost calibrator delivers -5V to +10V DC with 70-µV error Posted on behalf of Jordan Dimitrov Calibration, the stage of truth in the design of every test and measurement device, is done with calibrators, sophisticated highly accurate multifunctional instruments, which cost thousands of dollars. In many cases however you do not need to go to the […]

Application paper – Intelligent Power Switch for Raspberry Pi

Intelligent Power Switch for Raspberry Pi Posted on behalf of Peter Boxler A Raspberry Pi does not have an On/Off switch and there is no easy way to shutdown the Pi while keeping the file system intact. This Intelligent Power Switch brings a clever solution to this problem: Power-On the Pi by pressing a pushbutton […]

White paper – suitability of an enhanced low melting point alloy for a handheld device.

Suitability of an enhanced low melting point alloy for a handheld device Posted on behalf of Interflux Electronics NV Current lead-free soldering temperatures can damage temperature sensitive components. Moreover they can cause a shift in the properties of some components which can impact the functionality of sensitive electronic devices. An easy way to solve this […]

White paper – How to Prevent Emission Problems on Board Level ?

How to Prevent Emission Problems on Board Level Posted on behalf of CNRood, active in the BeNeLux & Sweden For many, the result of an EMC test comes as an unpleasant surprise. Large amounts of money and time are spent in re-designing the product, which causes heavy delays. The main cause of these additional costs […]

The Impact of Different Copper Thicknesses on the Cooling of a SMD-Voltage Regulator

Together with Prof. Francesco P. Volpe, professor for microcomputer technique and digital electronics at the University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg, we examined the impact of different numbers of copper layers and thicknesses on the cooling of a SMD linear voltage regulator. The associated experiment is detailed in the following: If we want to construct a […]

W Technology – an eC-test-mate user reports.

Alex Wilkinson of W Technology, 1 Chamberlain Place, Kidlington, Oxford, UK, became very interested in the eC-test-mate after seeing it demonstrated on the Eurocircuits stand at a recent trade show. W Technology develops and designs circuits, PCBs and firmware for a wide variety of products and product areas. Following on from the design phase, the […]

Virtec – an eC-test-mate user reports

VIRTEC S.R.L., Hurlingham – Buenos Aires, Argentina, customer of eC-test-mate VIRTEC S.R.L., located in Hurlingham, Argentina, is a committed user of the eC-test-mate. Its CTO, Mr Juan Andres Mondolo, chose the eC-test-mate (and its accompanying software eC-my-test) to cover all testing needs within the company. Already, Virtec has realized testing solutions for two products with […]

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