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By Chad Kidder
In Altium Designer
Posted August 16, 2016

Altium Design Security Advisory

After troubleshooting a problem I was having with the supplier links in Altium Designer, I recently found that, for at least one of the supplier links (Mouser), your login credentials are being [...]

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By Chad Kidder
In Altium Designer, computers, EDA
Posted March 26, 2016

Pro Tip: Moving Multiple Component Primitives in Altium Designer

Sometimes you have a design where you don’t want to make a new footprint, but need to move a certain track or via 10 mil one way… for 30 copies of the same footprint.

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By Chad Kidder
In Circuits, Embedded Systems, hard hacks, MSP430, USB
Posted January 1, 2016

Lighting the LEGO Salt Lake Temple

2015 was a busy year.  The project that I had the most fun with was a bit off the beaten path compared to what I normally do.  This started off as a fun project for a friend.  It started off [...]

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 Gotcha with the TI TCA6408A
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By Chad Kidder
In Circuits, Embedded Systems
Posted January 1, 2015

Gotcha with the TI TCA6408A

The TI TCA6408A is a wonderful little chip when you need a few more I/O. It’s simple to program and use… so why did pressing the button attached to one of the pins cause the chip to [...]

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By Chad Kidder
In Circuits, Embedded Systems
Posted June 5, 2013

These are not the bits you’re looking for

I’ve noticed recently that the number of bits available in an ADC is slowly creeping up.  That makes me excited… until I look at the system accuracy. 

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By Chad Kidder
In Altium Designer, Amateur Radio
Posted January 10, 2011

Compact ATX Breakout Board

It sucks when you need 12 VDC and your power supply just died.  Previously we made an ATX breakout board to turn an ATX power supply into a fixed voltage bench DC power supply.  Here we present a [...]

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By Chad Kidder
In Altium Designer, Embedded Systems, MSP430
Posted October 22, 2010

Debug adapter for eZ430

For those of you who do prototyping with the eZ430 or eZ430-RF boards, this may be of interest.  It’s a debug adapter that you can put inline to make use of  a logic analyzer or other test [...]

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By Chad Kidder
In Amateur Radio, Circuits, computers
Posted October 1, 2010

ATX Power Supply Breakout Board

How many of you have or know of someone who has an old computer just sitting in the closet gathering dust. How many of you would like to have a multiple output bench power supply? Do you need an [...]

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By Chad Kidder
In Circuits, USB
Posted August 18, 2010

The Dirty Truth about USB device Charging

How many devices do you have that charge over USB?   How many devices require you to do something special, or have a special adapter to do it? The last few cell phones I’ve had have USB [...]

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By ckidder
In Altium Designer, EDA
Posted July 22, 2009

Altium Designer Overbar or Overline

While trying to move to a new EDA package, Altium Designer, I had a really hard time finding out how to put a overbar, or overline on top of a pin designator. This is usually used for active low [...]

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