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Introduction: When Geometry Becomes a Mechanical Constraint Flat PCBs prefer flat worlds. Curved enclosures do not offer that luxury. In products like our bowl, industrial design demands organic forms—continuous curves that feel natural in the hand, integrate seamlessly into living spaces, and support fluid interaction. But behind that curvature
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Introduction: Signal Integrity as a System Property In the world of hardware development, "prototype" is often synonymous with "experimental." It implies a level of instability that is acceptable for a proof-of-concept but disastrous for a product. However, in the vBus ecosystem—where CPU SoMs, Power SoMs,
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Designing an Automated Handoff Between Engineering and Manufacturing In hardware design, the moment a PCB layout is declared “done” is rarely the end of engineering. It is the beginning of translation. What follows is not soldering irons or pick-and-place machines—it is data. Files. Formats. Assumptions. Naming conventions. Layer mappings.
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Introduction: More Than Just a Connector USB-C has become the default connector for modern electronics, but in embedded systems, it is rarely “just a connector.” It is a power interface, a data interface, a mechanical stress point, an ESD entry path, and often the first thing users interact with—long
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Introduction: When End Users Have Four Legs At Hoomanely, designing technology for pets presents unique engineering challenges that consumer electronics rarely encounter. Pets interact instinctively—through touch, taste, and repetition—without understanding operational boundaries or tolerating discomfort. When we developed EverBowl, every material decision was driven by a fundamental principle:
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Introduction: Hardware Meets Software Workflow Hardware design projects generate a wide range of files — schematics, PCB layouts, component libraries, manufacturing outputs, and documentation. Over the course of development, these files go through countless revisions as designs move from prototyping to testing and finally to production. Without a structured version control
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Introduction: Where Electrical Meets Mechanical To the untrained eye, it is merely a rectangle—a boundary line. But to us, it is the negotiated truce between electrical ambition and mechanical reality. This outline is not drawn at a whim; it is forged through a rigorous collision of constraints. Component density
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Introduction: When Every Minute Matters At Hoomanely, we design products for the real world—environments where systems occasionally need service, where components eventually reach end-of-life, and where rapid repair directly impacts operational uptime. Our vBus modular architecture extends beyond PCB-level modularity into a complete system philosophy that includes intelligent wire
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A Printed Circuit Board is more than a carrier for signals; it is a communication medium. At Hoomanely, we operate on a core truth: PCBs are read by humans just as often as they are powered by electricity. From the engineer debugging a prototype on the bench to the technician
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Introduction: Making the Invisible Visible Our vBus modules represent a feat of extreme integration, condensing high-performance processors, switching power regulators, wireless transceivers, and sensor interfaces into PCBs measuring merely a few square inches. This density introduces a fundamental challenge: heat generation is concentrated, thermal gradients are steep, and component reliability