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Who can program an ESP32 the quickest? I put two developers to the test

Published on November 14, 2024 by John Teel

3 engineers compete to design an ESP32 PCB in 90 minutes [YouTube]

Published on October 3, 2024 by John Teel

3 engineers race to design an STM32 PCB in 2 hours | Design Battle [YouTube]

Published on September 5, 2024 by John Teel

Two engineers compete to design a PCB in only 1 hour! Who will win?

Published on August 8, 2024 by John Teel

Watch two engineers battle to design two ESP32 PCBs in only 1 hour! ... read more

How (and where) to manufacture your new electronic product [YouTube]

Published on July 3, 2024 by John Teel

How (and Where) to Manufacture Your New Electronic Product

Published on July 2, 2024 by John Teel

We are going to compare three different manufacturing strategies: offshore, domestic, and hybrid manufacturing. ... read more

How I Got Lost Searching for Investors!

Published on June 13, 2024 by John Teel

Read the previous part of my story about my product being on store shelves for the first time.

I had bootstrapped my product to being for sale on shelves in over a 100 retail stores!

My product was a miniature … read more

My New Product on Store Shelves – How I Screwed Up!

Published on June 6, 2024 by John Teel

Read the previous part of my story about how I got a manufacturer to invest over $100k in my project.

Seeing my product on the shelf in the first store was a very exciting moment for me!

But the sales … read more

Manufacturer invested over $100,000 in my new product! Here’s how I did it.

Published on May 30, 2024 by John Teel

In my previous article and video I shared the story of how I got Blockbuster Video corporate to express written interest in selling my product.

Yes, that Blockbuster Video, but at this time they were still a huge successful company.… read more

0 My journey to market with my own product

Written by John Teel

It was on a return flight from a life-changing vacation in Alaska when I decided to become an entrepreneur.

I was so moved by the wildlife and natural beauty of Alaska that I wanted to make … read more

Launching a new electronic product? Don’t make these 3 critical mistakes! [YouTube]

Published on May 2, 2024 by John Teel

10 ways to know if your product idea is worth pursuing [YouTube]

Published on April 25, 2024 by John Teel

10 Product Development Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs [YouTube]

Published on April 11, 2024 by John Teel

In this video you’ll discover 10 of the most common mistakes made by entrepreneurs, startups, and small teams developing their first hardware product.

Some of these mistakes are technical design mistakes, and others are more business related, so there’s something … read more

How to Select the Best STM32 Microcontroller for Your Project

Published on April 8, 2024 by John Teel

The STM32 is a popular family of 32-bit microcontrollers from ST Microelectronics which are all based on ARM Cortex-M architectures.

But it’s a huge family that includes numerous variants.

In fact, Digikey shows 3,954 different STM32 microcontroller versions available!

This … read more

Switching Regulator PCB Design Simplified [YouTube]

Published on April 4, 2024 by John Teel

In this video you’ll learn to design a schematic and PCB layout for a switching regulator without the overwhelm of trying to understand the complex fundamentals of how they work.… read more