Q&A: Aubrey Kagan (Engineer, Author)
Engineer and author Aubrey Kagan

Aubrey Kagan is a talented engineer with years of experience designing embedded systems. He’s also a prolific author. Between 2000 and 2010 he published 15 articles with Circuit Cellar on topics ranging from developing an AC current generator to resilience … Continue reading

A Prolific Engineer’s Two-Bench Workspace In Silicon Valley
Vincent Himpe's workbench for hardware development

I met Vincent Himpe—a Senior Staff Engineer at STMicroelectronics—a few years ago at the Emebdded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA. It took all of about 5 minutes to learn that he was an engineer with a lot on his … Continue reading

Q&A: Lawrence Foltzer (Communications Engineer)
Lawrence Foltzer’s frequency-domain test instruments. An Analog Devices AD9834-based RFG is on the left. An AD5930-based SFG is on the right. The ICSP interface used to program a Microchip Technology PIC16F627A microcontroller is provided by a dangling RJ connector socket. (Source: L. Foltzer, CC254)

In the U.S., a common gift to give someone when he or she finishes school or completes a course of career training is Dr. Seuss’s book, Oh, the Place You’ll Go. I thought of the book’s title when I first … Continue reading

Q&A: Dave Jones (Engineer, EEVBlog)
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Are you an electrical engineer, hacker, or maker looking for a steady dose of reliable product reviews, technical insight, and EE musings? If so, Dave Jones is your man. The Sydney, Australia-based engineer’s video blog (EEVblog) and podcast (The Amp … Continue reading

Q&A: Per Lundahl (Transformer Design)
Per Lundahl, CEO of Lundahl Transformers

Per Lundahl is a multitalented designer who runs one of world’s leading high-performance audio transformer manufacturing outfits, Lundahl Transformers, which is based in Norrtalje, Sweden. After graduating from the School of Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, … Continue reading