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Michael W.

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Electrical Engineer, Product Designer, Director of Arts and Crafts, unpaid intern/CEO Currently working on https://t.co/HBA4lbBOGn

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Should you cut a hole in the ground plane under the pads of a USB-C or HDMI connector? Some engineers swear by it, others say never. I simulated it 327 times to settle it. Answer: yes, when the pad is wider than the trace. And make the hole exactly the size of the pads. 🧵1/12

Should you cut a hole in the ground plane under the pads of a USB-C or HDMI connector? Some engineers swear by it, others say never. I simulated it 327 times to settle it. Answer: yes, when the pad is wider than the trace. And make the hole exactly the size of the pads. 🧵1/12

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PCB layout is getting cheap and fast enough with AI that a whole category of projects is now worth building: the ones whose markets are too small to ever pay back traditional R&D. I've been working through a backlog of ideas like that. Here's one of them 🧵

PCB layout is getting cheap and fast enough with AI that a whole category of projects is now worth building: the ones whose markets are too small to ever pay back traditional R&D. I've been working through a backlog of ideas like that. Here's one of them 🧵

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