So, you’ve created your schematic, you’ve laid out your PCB, you’ve had multiple design reviews with your esteemed colleagues, and you’re certain that your design will work exactly as expected (haha). Now you’re ready to get [..]

A couple months ago, I wrote the second in a series of posts on an introduction to PCB Design and Manufacturing: In that post, I covered the basics of schematic design by going through the design process for a simple LED [..]

A couple months ago, I wrote the first in a series of posts on an introduction to PCB Design and Manufacturing: In that post, I gave a very high-level overview of the process and began introducing some key concepts for PCB [..]

Part 1: Introduction  Once upon a time, not that long ago, I knew nothing about what goes on in getting a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) designed and assembled. There’s still a lot that I don’t know, but at least now I know the [..]

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In Part 1 of this post, we used the idea of shining a light through a cut-out in a piece of paper and discussed how the projection of light onto a dark surface can be used to get an idea of the paper’s inclination. In Part [..]

In a previous blog post on the building blocks of an MWD system, I mentioned that one of the primary measurements that the system must make is the inclination of the tool. I also alluded to the use of accelerometers for said [..]

  There is often a point early in the learning process where the student knows so little of the subject that they don’t even know what questions to ask. Imagine trying to teach someone who has no concept of a car (like a [..]