“What Most Schools Don’t Teach” – A video on the importance of educating kids about software and engineering was recently released by Code.org, a non-profit organization tasked with growing the educational options and opportunities for computer programming. They have some heavy-hitters on their advisory board and offer an assortment of programming tutorials for students andRead more
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The history of the FDA and regulations on medical devices can be traced backed to “the appointment of Lewis Caleb Beck in the Patent Office around 1848 to carry out chemical analyses of agricultural products, a function that the newly created Department of Agriculture inherited in 1862”. Over time, many new regulations and laws were placedRead more
I’ve been interested in learning how to program FPGAs, and I recently purchased a Cyclone II FPGA Starter Board from Altera to learn some of those skills. It comes with a few tutorials on how to make the LEDs blink and such, but nothing more than that. That’s great, but if you’re wanting to doRead more
Today we’re helping present at the Definition of Insanity Tour to showcase Altium Designer 2013. If you’re unfamiliar with the Altium Designer software, it is by far the best electronics design software package for rapid design. The integrated approach used by Altium (they call it “Unified”) for board design is one of the secrets toRead more
Sparx has been using the NXP LPC1343 for a couple of different projects. It is a neat little microcontroller with USB capabilities. I was initially hesitant on this microcontroller because of what appeared to be proprietary tools. I generally don’t care for proprietary tools because the time and effort spent learning them does not transferRead more
Welcome to the new blog of Sparx Engineering! We’ll be using this site as a way to discuss and share different topics that interest us. We have a highly skilled team of engineers that provide innovation services and consulting to a wide variety of clients and industries. After years of internal emails with subject linesRead more