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Blog posts by Martin Keenan

Martin Keenan

United Kingdom

PCB Design Tools - New Product Introduction Award

DesignSpark PCB was recently recognised as New Product of the Year in the PCB Design Tools category, by Printed Circuit Design and Fab Magazine

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Martin Keenan

United Kingdom

Who Builds YOUR boards?

We have had over 40,000 engineers try out DesignSpark PCB since July of this year.  There are many popular questions that have come in via email and the Ask section of DesignSpark - one of the more interesting of these is when an engineer asks us for advice on who we would recommend they use to build the PCB they have just created with DesignSpark PCB...  In the sprit of DesignSpark it would be rally useful for people to share their positive experiences and identify some pitfalls that you may have fallen into (without slandering any company of course please!). Read more

Martin Keenan

United Kingdom

The price of Education?

This week, once again, the students of Britain have united and mobilised to highlight the plight facing undergraduates regarding University fees.  Read more

Martin Keenan

United Kingdom

Dear EU, stop messing with my PCB grids!

The European Union really winds me up.  Over the past two weeks it has decided that the way to solve a debt crisis is to further increase the level of debt (they had help with this from the IMF and the ECB).  The oddest thing about this sorry affair is that they have managed to get an incompetent Irish governement to agree that the best way to secure the long term economic future of the country is to Read more

Martin Keenan

United Kingdom

Breaking Down the Barriers

Taking, adapting and creating new electronics hardware designs just got a whole lot easier. I look at how the free pcb design tool from RS Components, DesignSpark PCB, is helping to lower barriers to innovation and explore the pertinance to Open-source harware projects such as Arduino
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