Ey builder! As you might know it, I am building an Open Source Near Field Probe kit Since I started, the project has gained some attention. I am excited to see the applications! The PCBs have arrived! It is exciting to see the designs coming to life. Once I soldered the connectors I said to myself: let's test them! (Silence...) How am I going to test these? I have been victim of the same trap that my customers fell into. It looks like I made the same mistake I continuously prevent them to...

Ey reader! Most of the times, we take for granted the complexity of things we use every day. One example is Near-Field Probes There are many out there, from 10 € to 2000 €. They all seem to work in the same way: Connect them to an oscilloscope or a Spectrum Analyzer Place them close to an alternate source of Electromagnetic Energy Measure and extract conclusions Easy, right? What if I ask you to build one or two from scratch? ... Not that easy, right? That exactly happened to me when I...

Hardware Startups have it 10x harder to sell a hardware product Why? First, they have the typical challenges of a Startup Limited amount of resources: you cannot build a 1M laboratory the first week. The stereotype photo of the first days of a Startup has their founders working long hours in the garage of one of them. You need to build something great with the tools you have around and if you are lucky, with some tools you receive from generous donors. Pressure from investors to get high...