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eric
@zerophase.bsky.social
hardware engineer / jhu grad student
Woohoo! 6 & 8 layer Aisler PCBs!
We just shipped the biggest update to our PCB offering ever: Beautiful Boards+ 🧡

More layers, more colors, more copper options – still 100% made in Europe.

#pcb #electronics #hardware #MadeInEurope
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The new bsky logo 🤮
October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I don’t really want to leave my job but I keep getting assigned less interesting boards to make (like a front panel board). The first real board I made here was the most advanced one I did, (18L, blind/buried vias) since then, like 4 years ago, it’s been not career-advancing stuff
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Using an ancient petalinux version on the microzed, issues with tcf agent in vitis. Struggle through a new petalinux build annnndddd…. Vitis uploads the executable to the microzed but still throws an error 😡
October 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Not fun assembling this RF card!
September 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Getting some hot air pencil practice in…
September 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Touched grass today in Dolly Sods
August 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
No magic smoke! Carrier board went together smoothly. Now need to figure out why the bank power isn’t turning on intermittently (which is enabled by SOM board)… and give it another clean lol
August 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
New tips for the metcal. Super impressed with this iron, the fine tip eats up 6L ground planes for breakfast.
August 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Last board arrived, and the prototype layout
August 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Happy with my metcal and hakko hot air station marketplace finds. Got some new soldering tips on the way
August 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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born to pcb
impedance is a fuck
route em all 1989
I am schematic man
410,757,864,530 design rule violations
August 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Private equity group Advent to acquire U-Blox for $1.3 billion reut.rs/41da9iq
Private equity group Advent to acquire U-Blox for $1.3 billion
Private equity group Advent International said on Sunday it has agreed to take over Switzerland's U-Blox Holding in a cash offer worth some 1.05 billion Swiss francs ($1.30 billion).
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August 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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One more to go!
August 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Now we wait for fabs to arrive 🤓
August 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Starting the reflow oven build
August 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I like that you can donate to @kicad.org via @aisler.net checkout. Pretty convenient way to contribute a little bit!
August 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Just need to order this stupid thing already
August 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Finally have the bench set up, with a new ESD mat, lab chair, and lighting.
July 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Toaster oven and reflow kit arrived!
July 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
One thing I like to do for high speed signals is tighten the inner reference plane clearance. This minimizes the via impedance discontinuity. The green is the reference layer (L2).
July 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Sanity checking my assembly
July 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM