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A New (To Me) EE Channel on YouTube
For the first time in a while, I’m designing a PCB for a personal project which has significant analog circuitry. So I needed a refresher on stack ups, ground planes, etc. After poking around YouTube and finding videos that spend either spend too much time and/or provide too much and/or too little info, I found…
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Hey! In KiCad 9, why is ERC flagging my wires with net labels as being unconnected?
Got a surprise today when I ran ERC on a schematic after upgrading to KiCad 9. My “unconnected” wires with net labels were getting flagged as actually unconnected wires. I checked using Highlight Nets to make sure the nets I thought were electrically connected via labeling were actually connected, and they were. So KiCad knew…
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No, they’re not idiots (usually).
There’s a well-known quote, “When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.” In other words, people are great at finding ways to misuse the products we create, and preventing that misuse is an endless task. In fact, in my experience, we spend more time “idiot proofing” our devices than implementing their…