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KiCAD PCBNew Scripting: Removing Ref Des From Silk Screen
Saturday, June 11, 2022 in Blog
3 minute read
Purpose Most boards I make have the reference designators on the silkscreen, that way when doing board bring-up I only need the schematic, BOM, and board. When doing a tight design it may not be possible to fit the labels anywhere that might …
Text Formatting In the Terminal
Thursday, February 10, 2022 in Blog
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Rich Table I wanted to share a useful python library that I finally remembered to use after staring it while browsing Github awhile ago. Finding a new useful library can be incredibly invigorating, sometimes its a waste of time, but the other times! …
Jupyter Notebooks & Photon Budgets
Monday, November 29, 2021 in Blog
4 minute read
Feasibility Analysis / Photon Budgets When making a measurement the first questions you need to ask are: What are we measuring How can it be measured Is the measurement possible How good can we get The order is only for the first iteration of …
Jupyter Notebook Tools & Setup
Saturday, November 20, 2021 in Blog
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Improving PDF Output Plots are by default PNG. When possible I prefer vector graphics as it allows you to upscale as much as necessary with no quality penalty. The following sets the exporting image format to PDF. The inline images remain PNGs but …
Blogs & News Sites
Saturday, November 13, 2021 in Blog
2 minute read
Technical Blogs & News: OPML List Analog Circuit Design:forumids=38; https://www.edaboard.com/ MCU on Eclipse: https://mcuoneclipse.com Journal of the Optical Society of America A: http://www.osapublishing.org/josaa MacroFab: https://macrofab.com …
ISP Programming
Monday, December 02, 2019 in Blog
3 minute read
Intro Most microcontrollers these days come with integrated, ROM based, bootloader known as In-System Programming (ISP). You hookup to some default port, follow the protocol described in the docs and you can write/read the flash, query chip …