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...

It is the moment to change our approach In the previous issue, we talked about the need for tools. You can read it, and all the other issues, here. We want to go to the moon, and Mars, make space trips as regular holidays We want to have fully autonomous cars and have 0% accidents We want to watch HD Netflix from any remote village But We use our grandpa´s multimeters We keep old versions of our CAD tools We follow the waterfall project management process And we are surprised that... We will...