Here at Sparx Engineering, we utilize a variety of fabrication techniques to take conceptual ideas and create actual working prototypes. The ability to quickly and readily fabricate functional proofs is vital in our work. It allows us to confirm ideas and possible solutions to the design problems that come along. Recently, we’ve started exploring theRead more
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We primarily are a Subversion shop at Sparx. Sure all the cool kernel kids use Git but we have a slightly different use case. Plus our electrical CAD tool of choice supports Subversion natively. So we use Subversion for all aspects of collaboration, configuration management, and version control. If you looked inside our project repositories,Read more
Any good engineer likes it when life throws the conditions their way for a great experiment, and life has just thrown me several all at once. I have a six-year-old son, a two-year-old son, a six-month-old daughter, and until recently, a two-parent household. I’m not used to being a single dad of three, but myRead more
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