Electronics Manufacturing for the Masses: Q&A with Felix Plitzko

Designers around the globe are constantly seeking affordable, easy-to-use rapid prototyping and electronics manufacturing solutions. Felix Plitzko (CEO and Co-Founder, AISLER) talks about his mission to bring next-generation professional electronics manufacturing services to designers in Europe and beyond. 

Some of the best European startups will showcase their products alongside leading technology providers in the IoT sector. Join Hardware Pioneers showcase on 7th June 2018  in Old Street, London and connect with over 500 entrepreneurs and engineers reinventing the ‘future of things’.

PICMG is an open modular computing specification group that can help you gain a competitive edge with early access to key technologies and promotion of your products. The low-cost membership group gives you the opportunity to have a modular, scalable upgrade path for your computing solution and reduce the risk for your customers. Learn. Promote. Collaborate. Leverage. Become a leader in your industry! Join PICMG.

Open Source USB2GO is a small development board that plugs directly into the micro USB port of your Android smartphone. The purpose of the USB2GO is to make it easy developers to build hardware gadgets for the Android phone. The device can be used to build a thermometer, a portable oscilloscope or anything else the community comes up with. It's about the size of a USB stick and powered from the phone so no extra batteries are needed. USB2GO is currently being crowdsourced on Kickstarter in...

Follow Elektor Design Engineer Chris Vossen as he builds his own 3D printer When looking into our project, we have to make several decisions that determine the further course of the project. In order to print in 3D, we have to be able to move either our ‘printing head’, our printed object, or a combination of the two in three dimensions. We went for the combination of both a moving printing head and a moving object table. Here’s why. A table moving in only one direction is not very hard to des...

Earlier I wrote about bitcoin and its potential to revolutionize the monetary system beyond all recognition. Over the past weeks the digital currency has attracted quite some attention. From politicians (who want to forbid it), economists (who test its merits against their theories) and thieves. The traction is driving up the exchange rate. A year ago, when only hardcore enthusiasts were in the game 1 bitcoin (BTC) was worth a couple of dollar cents. Today buying 1 BTC exchanges for $16. Bitcoin...

So far in this series of articles, we have looked at two areas of FPGA usage. Having looked at the design methodologies available to us, and the usage of FPGA design software, we are now in a position to consider the hardware implications of FPGA usage.

This is the first of a series of articles discussing the assembly of a simple robot, called BoE-Bot, we’ll use to learn introductory programming with the BASIC Stamp. The BoE portion is the BOARD OF EDUCATION, and the Bot refers to robot chassis. The project is flexible, and could also be a rolling breadboard. Provided you’ve got a Stampbased servo driven platform, following the lessons will be easy.

The Elektor Electronics Digital Train System published in this magazine in 1989/90 was warmly received by the regrettably declining core of model train enthusiasts. Now, almost ten years later, much of the electronics technology has changed and it is, therefore, felt necessary to update a number of key elements of that system. One of the more important changes is the prominent role given to the personal computer (PC). This development also opens the way to a number of new applications.

As a perfect complement to the articles in this month’s Supplement, this Electronics On-Line page is devoted to making your own music CDs. What does the Internet have on this subject?