Maker Days Eindhoven is next weekend, 12 & 13 Sept, 11:00 to 18:00 at the Klokgebouw on Strijp-S. Hundreds of projects and the people who built them, like an eight-metre robot made of recycled parts and an arena where self-built machines take each other apart. 😼 #MakerDays website: en.makerdays.nl/
Aerospace Team Graz has developed 85 PCB's for their ISPIDA rocket. They highlight a few critical ones in their new article, such as the main flight computer, the black box and the recovery interface. Check it out to learn more about their electronics! 🧡 #technology #hardware #rocketry
ISPIDA - Aerospace Team Graz at EuRoC 2025
Aerospace Team Graz - Who we are We are ASTG - Aerospace Team Graz, a student rocketry club based at Graz University of Technology in Austria. The team consists of about 100 members of all different kinds of degree programs. Each year our teams goal is to participate at the annual European Rocketry Challenge in Portugal. Last year, we pushed the envelope of our hybrid engine design with ISPIDA, designed to reach an apogee of 9000 meters at EuRoC25. ISPIDA ISPIDA is the third hybrid engine pro...
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Team JKU Racing has shared their learnings on managing a shared component library in our community! 🧡 One of their recommendations is to use life cycle states to show if components have been tested on real hardware. What are your tips on managing your component library? #technology #hardware
Managing a shared component library when working in a team
Having a shared component library can save time, reduce mistakes and make designs more consistent. Without proper management, however, it can create its own set of problems that may not be obvious at first. As a Formula Student team in its first year, we at JKU Racing have learned this lesson the hard way throughout several PCB development cycles. Although there was no single problem that caused the entire system to fail, we accumulated a growing collection of small issues that hindered an effe...
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The cookie-to-business-card ratio at Maker Faire Hannover was perfect. Lovely to meet so many of you at the HCC. Waves to @blinkyparts.bsky.social, @nnnilabs.net, unsurv, Freie Maker, and the Infineon folks. #MakerFaireHannover #MFH26 #electronics #PCB #maker
A locomotive with CAN-based electronic architecture, custom PCBs and a self-developed standard to integrate new modules. 🚄 That's what team Loc.KA engineering is developing for the European Railway Challenge! Want to know more about their project? Check it out here! 🧡 #technology #hardware
Loc.KA.engineering - Developement of future railways - Smoke Detection
Hi everyone! We are Loc.KA.engineering e.V., an interdisciplinary student team from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Our mission is to design and build innovative railway technology for the European Railway Challenge (https://railwaychallenge.eu/) , where students develop, build and test small scale locomotives. To achieve this, we develop almost everything ourselves—from mechanical components and embedded software to custom electronics. Designing our own PCBs allows us to tailor e...
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Anyone here, who'd like to visit the Maker Faire Hannover this weekend and doesn't have a ticket yet? Please drop me a pm 🧡
It's International Cat Day, on a Saturday. Cat tax below. 😻 Cats are responsible for a lot of hardware. Automatic feeders, flaps that open for one registered chip. Litter trays on a load cell, LED ear headbands, ... What have you built for a cat that made it to a manufactured board?
Team Solaride has developed a new communications PCB for their solar car. They designed a four-layer PCB in Altium, with an ESP32-S3 and two audio codecs with built-in ADCs and DACs. Want to know the specifics of their project? Read their latest post in our community! 🧡 #hardware #technology
Radio / Intercom for a Solar Car
Introduction Honored browser of the Interweb, Greetings from Team Solaride, a student solar car team from Estonia. We’re building our (and indeed the Baltic’s) fourth solar-powered car, competing in the Cruiser Class. As with every season, this season brings a brand new car, 70-ish happy members and a goal to finish first in our class in the 2027 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge held in Australia. Radio / Intercom board The what and why In this post we’d like to showcase our initial design fo...
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New PCB from @aisler.net. Had to flatten the stencil first (thanks DHL premium), but it soldered fine in the end. Now to test if everything works using it with the 360x360 qspi display.
I got this beautiful board manufactured by @aisler.net! So, now let's move on to the assembly process!
Solar Team Eindhoven has presented their new project, Stella Juva: The world's first solar-powered ambulance! 🚑 They have developed a completely new electrical system for this project. Read all about it in their latest post in our community! 🧡 #technology #hardware
Solar Team Eindhoven Presents: Stella Juva - The World’s First Solar-Powered Ambulance
Photo: Bart van Overbeeke Project overview This year, Solar Team Eindhoven, a team of 23 students from the Eindhoven University of technologies is building Stella Juva: the world’s first solar-powered ambulance. By relying purely on the power of the sun, Stella Juva can both drive as well as power its medical equipment entirely independent of the energy grid. This enables Stella Juva to provide medical care anywhere in the world, even in remote and hard-to-reach areas. In August 2026, the...
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In Part 3 of our KiCad series with #ThatKiCadGuy you learn how to put your KiCad library under Git & share it with your team. init → commit → push. 😎 ▶ youtu.be/5MHF84NF_lI We're looking forward to your feedback on the series! 🧡 #KiCad #Git #OpenHardware
Put Your KiCad Library Under Git in 2 Minutes | Lesson 3/3 | AISLER × ThatKiCadGuy
Your custom KiCad library is only useful if your whole team can trust it. In part 3 of 3, Petr Dvořák (#ThatKiCadGuy) installs the AISLER Lovely Library, put...
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Team ROCKIT from Karlsruhe has been developing a new Engine Control Unit, a modular system consisting of three boards all with their own function. They are all connected to a board that handles data routing and power distribution. Read all about it in our community! 🧡 #technology #hardware
Engine Control Unit (ECU_SENS) ROCKIT Karlsruhe
Introduction We are a student-led rocketry group of around 100 members from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Our ultimate goal is to build a self-landing, bi-liquid hopper rocket. Every component of this hopper is designed and manufactured in-house by our team. We are divided into specialized sub-teams: the Engine team designs and tests our liquid-propellant rocket engine; the Structure team develops the tanks and the rocket’s airframe; and the Avionics team writes the ...
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Team Aetherspace is making returning experiments from space more accessible through their T-Rex project. Want to know how they've faced unique challenges such as thermal management in near vacuum conditions, or robustness for 20g launch loads? Read their new community post! 🧡 #technology #hardware
Aetherspace – Building a Re-entry CubeSat
We are Aetherspace, a student-led aerospace team from KU Leuven (Belgium), developing Aether: T-ReX: a 3U re-entry CubeSat demonstrator that will fly aboard a REXUS sounding rocket in March 2027. Our mission is to make space research more accessible by developing a low-cost platform capable of returning scientific payloads back to Earth. Throughout the project, AISLER has been our trusted PCB manufacturing partner, helping us iterate quickly on the electronics that make our mission possible. I...
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Today is France's Fête Nationale. Not our holiday, but a good day to celebrate with you. 🧡 So we're marking the day with you. Small gift to go with it: code FeteNationale26, €10 off Beautiful Boards or Amazing Assembly. One use per account, valid until 31/07/2026. #PCB #Electronics #MadeInEurope
Half of all PCB Design-pain starts in the library. 🥲 New 3-part series with Petr Dvořák (#ThatKiCadGuy). Part 1: global vs. project-specific libraries + drawing a custom symbol (a 3-phase bridge rectifier) from a datasheet with the AISLER Lovely Library. ▶ youtu.be/fmwMzdV9XGk Free & CC-BY-SA:
Build a Custom KiCad Symbol + Sort Your Libraries | AISLER × ThatKiCadGuy
Global or project-specific? Where you keep your KiCad symbols decides whether 'Future You' can actually find them.In part 1 of 3, Petr Dvořák (#ThatKiCadGuy)...
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Because team HyDriven's formula student car is powered by hydrogen, safety is of the utmost importance. Therefore, they've designed a fully analog Hydrogen Safety Circuit that continuously measures critical values. You can read about their design choices in their post in our community! 🧡
HyDriven - Hydrogen Safety Circuit
Hydrogen Safety Circuit We are HyDriven, a student team from the University of Twente and Saxion University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Each year, we design and build a hydrogen-powered Formula Student race car. Red Bull ring While most people focus on performance, a large part of our engineering effort goes into safety. One of the most important systems in our car is the Hydrogen Safety Circuit (HSC). Picture HSC PCB The HSC is a fully analog control circuit responsible f...
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Winning formula student races is not just about speed, but also about reliability! 🏎️ Team TUG Racing has been working hard to make their car as reliable as possible. Want to know how? Read their article in our community! 🧡 #technology #hardware
Design Phase in the TUG Racing Formula Student Team
Hello everyone! We are the TUG Racing Team, the Formula Student Team of Graz University of Technology. Every year we develop and build an electric race car with around 50 people from different academic programmes. In the summer we participate in competitions with other Formula Student Teams from all over the world in several disciplines, technical and non-technical. There are dynamic ones, where our car is driving on different courses, but also static ones like a Business Plan presentation. A ...
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RIP the €150 duty-free parcel. Now it's a flat €3 per tariff heading (not per parcel!). No pre-clearance? The carrier fronts it and catches you at the door. DHL's fee: €7.50 extra. 🙃 Good news: There's nothing to charge if it never leaves EU. 🇪🇺 Your AISLER orders are not affected. 🧡 #PCB #MadeInEu
Guidance and legal text on temporary flat fee on low-value imports which will apply until 1 July 2028
From 1 July 2026, the EU will apply a temporary €3 customs duty per item on low-value consignments (up to €150) imported from outside the EU, abolishing the duty exemption applicable until 30 June 2026.
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so not labelling the parts was a mistake, and making a test board as dense as the final product is always a mistake, so I added more test points! (boards from @aisler.net, NNNI26 for €10 off year-round, multiple times!)
To study how liquids move through passive valves, team Capilux is designing an experiment for the Rexus-Bexus programme. The brain of their experiment is their mainboard, a 4-layer PCB that controls all the main processes. You can read all about it in their community post! 🧡 #technology #hardware
CAPILUX – A Student Team Sending a Capillary Experiment to Space on REXUS 38
We are CAPILUX, a student team currently working on an experiment aboard the REXUS 38 sounding rocket as part of the Swedish-German REXUS/BEXUS programme (cycle 17). Our experiment investigates capillary-driven fluid behaviour in microgravity — studying how liquids move through V-groove channels and passive valves when gravity no longer dominates the flow. Understanding this is directly relevant to passive fluid management systems used in spacecraft propellant tanks and thermal control loops. W...
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Important notice regarding the current weather: Watch your operating temperature! Drink plenty of water and don't exceed your absolute maximum ratings. 🥵
A group of students from ETH Zürich is working on project Equilibrio. They aim to build a one-wheeled robotic platform that has to actively stabilize itself, a complex process to design! Curious to their project? Check out their posts in our community! 🧡 #technology #hardware
Focus Project Equilibrio: Evolution of the PCBs
This blog post is a follow-up to our previous article about Focus Project Equilibrio. While the first post introduced the robot and the role of electronics in the system, this article focuses on the evolution of our custom PCBs. In a compact robotic platform like Equilibrio, the electronics are tightly coupled to the mechanical design, power architecture, sensor interfaces, and safety concept. As the robot evolved, the PCBs had to evolve with it. From First Concept to Power Distribution Board T...
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Who else has sent their referral code to the group chat three times this week? 😅 No shame, we've all been there. And it's actually a decent deal: your mate gets €10 off their first PCB order, you get €10 store credit once it ships. Do it as many times as you want, nobody's stopping you.
This is the Raspberry Pi CM4S carrier that I designed during the KiCad Live Stream sessions. I made a few mistakes. The biggest I've identified so far is that the HDMI is too close to both sideways USB Type-C ports. That's a big issue because you can't plug the standard HDMI cable into it.
Team Robotik UTT has recently competed in the French Robotics Cup. For the electronics they have used a TDK Lambda regulator due to its flexibility as it can deliver up to 10A and the output voltage can be adjusted. Want to know more? Read all about it in their new community post! #pcb #hardware
French Robotic Cup - Power supply 🪫
Hello from Robotik UTT in Troyes! This year, our team participated in the French Robotics Cup centered around the exciting theme, “Winter is Coming”! ❄ Today, we are thrilled to share the core electronic components that powered our robot’s main power supply PCB, designed entirely in KiCad. The Power Source First of all, the robot is powered by a Parkside drill battery featuring an integrated BMS (Battery Management System). This choice made our testing and operations significantly ...
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always remember to order a stencil with your PCBs! I tried smearing paste on the board here, but the results were blobby 🤰 (if you get your PCBs from @aisler.net, use NNNI26 for €10 off year-round! 😳)
Did you know that you can collect store credit through our 'Rifty Reward' programme? The only limit is the sky, so how much store credit have you collected so far? 👀 Don't know the Rifty Reward yet? Head over here: community.aisler.net/t/rifty-rewa...
Imagine building a rocket from scratch without millions in funding... 🚀 Sounds like a challenge right? That is exactly what team VOID is working on! Read about their projects in their new community post! 🧡 #technology #hardware
VOID Propulsion - Servo Board
Hello Aisler community, We are VOID, a student rocketry team from the TU/e with the aim of researching and developing reusable rockets. More specifically, we focus on developing liquid bi-propellant powered rockets with the ability to propulsively land. At the moment we have two main projects. The first is project Ignis, a rocket designed to compete at the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoc) in the 3km apogee category. This project is also used as a stepping stone in developing the whol...
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I have assembled and done some initial testing of the PCB I ordered from @aisler.net. This is the main board of a battery powered BLE compact touchpad.
