In a recent survey, we asked the following question: What are your biggest problems related to flex design? Here are just a few of the answers, edited slightly for clarity.

1. The signal integrity of signal paths through both flex and rigid parts of rigid-flex PCBs.
2. Understanding how to design a flexible PCB that is easily manufacturable and robust.
3. None. We design them correctly!
4. Mechanical dimensioning and sizing to fit the required application.
5. Our designers need to learn more about the FPC fab

Sunstone Circuits was eager to return to MakeHarvard as a sponsor and creator of a competition category this year, also serving as both mentors and competition judges. If you were there, you saw us—we were hard to miss in our bright orange vests. As mentors, we were out and about helping students and answering questions.

The second annual MakeHarvard engineering makeathon was a huge success. The event brought over 370 top students from around the world to compete for prizes while building engineering prototypes. It was great to see such a diverse representation of different nations, cultures, and languages. The 2019 event was twice as large as last year, making everything seem bigger and better... More >