Inline Microphone Preamp Update 1: KiCad Footprint Trap

So here’s the situation, I accidentally ordered the parts for the Inline Microphone Preamp Project … to Malaysia. One month and a trip to Portugal later, I finally got the chance to use the electronics lab here in Cambridge for the first time to asesemble this thing (thanks Elena for bringing the stuff over for me!), and in good old DIY analog electronics fashion, it didn’t work first time. Turns out, the SOT-89 footprint in KiCad has it’s pins in the opposite order from those in the NXP datasheet for the PBSS4540X and PBSS5540X transistors I was using....

April 27, 2022 · 3 min · Infinus

How to Embed SVG Schematics from KiCad into a Hugo Page

I have recently decided to move Infinus Electronics over to Hugo, as WordPress with its weird styling issues and super hard to understand file structure made it way too frustrating to debug and customise. So far, working with Hugo has been a blast, and having worked with frameworks like Laravel and Flask before, the whole organisation of pages by file hierarchy has been a lot more intuitive. And transparent. The issue My first post written on this new platform is the Battery Powered +48V Phantom Power Supply , which of course, had to show a schematic from KiCad....

December 25, 2021 · 7 min · Infinus