Thijs Beckers (194)

| Recently the EU Parliament adopted a new Amendment to Article 18 of the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the appro...

| Yet another platform has been released to the embedded audience: the BeagleBone Black. Recently we (finally) got one on our workbench. It lo...

| The Elektor FPGA Development Board published in the December 2012 issue [1] uses a micro SD card to store the configuration data needed by t...

| It wasn’t just the temperature outside that rose significantly this summer @ Elektor House. While testing his prototype of the soon to be pu...

| If an engineering problem appears daunting and complex that does not always equate to the solution being expensive and/or high tech. Elektor...

| A recent coffee chat I had with a few colleagues at Elektor HQ resulted in me putting three LCR Meters with a completely different backgroun...

| Wave soldering is a technique often used to solder complete PCBs very quickly in production lines and facilities. It is best described as ru...

| In this article we describe unexpected value changes of capacitors after soldering.

| Assembly of some components can be quite tricky, even if they’re not SMD. For instance, mounting an ordinary quartz crystal on a professiona...

| You may have noticed our LCR Meter project. Here's a progress report on how the PCB got assembled in our lab.