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Vishwas Vaidya May 5, 2026 5

The curious case of the dancing antennae

Misbehaving buffer pointers, whose effects threatened to create a fatal project setback, were identified via a clever software subdivision Continue Reading...

Damian Bonicatto and Phoenix Bonicatto October 29, 2025 4

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How much help are free AI tools for electronic design?

Grading my experience with AI in electronic design. It’s worth using and everyone should give it a try, just check the answers Continue Reading...

Damian Bonicatto and Phoenix Bonicatto October 9, 2025 1

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Watchdog versus the truck

Two engineers attempt to upgrade an outdated monitor for trucks and are met with a very public failure on the first beta Continue Reading...

Robert Yankowitz September 11, 2025 6

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Between two vendors

It was a classic stand-off. Vendor number one’s system wasn’t talking to vendor number two’s. What to do? Of course! Blame the customer’s Continue Reading...

Damian Bonicatto and Phoenix Bonicatto July 24, 2025 4

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When a ring isn’t really a ring

A system designed to prevent pesky arcade coin theft can’t communicate coin counts for some unknown Continue Reading...

Christopher Paul April 30, 2025 4

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Clearing out the data clutter

Frequent Design Idea (DI) contributor, Christopher Paul, runs into a data visualization problem when working on a new personal DI Continue Reading...

EDN Staff April 29, 2025 0

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Tell us your Tale!

We welcome engineers to share their stories, solving challenges relating to a personal project, a contract, or a corporate design Continue Reading...

Damian Bonicatto and Phoenix Bonicatto April 3, 2025 7

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PUT a reset in its place

An engineer must recreate a customer coffee maker failure and employ simple fix that misses a patent opportunity but turns into a design Continue Reading...

Robert Yankowitz May 23, 2024 0

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Analog TV transmitter—analog problem

A young engineer in the early 1980s gets to the bottom of why strange black lines seem to appear on the video of a TV Continue Reading...

Daniel Dufresne January 22, 2024 6

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That thing is a 20 kW noise generator!

A design engineer for a custom measurement system company finds the one fault in a PCB design that is causing frequent faults during Continue Reading...