It’s pretty awesome to have a hardware design hero jump at the chance to work on a Hackaday conference badge. I am of course talking about Voja Antonic. Designing a hardware badge isn’t quite as ...

To begin any embedded system-level design, the developer needs a clear understanding of what the final software design must accomplish. The source of this information is the system requirements ...

People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...

A recent Aberdeen Group study showed that best-in-class manufacturers — those that get products to market faster with the lowest change costs — build about half the number of physical prototypes than ...

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking this month about making teaching documents of all kinds more accessible. Some of this is about a syllabus, but some of it is about rethinking some of our signs and ...

Have you ever opened a document and felt overwhelmed by inconsistent fonts, uneven spacing, or chaotic formatting? It’s a common frustration, but what if you could transform your Microsoft Word ...

Do you need a design or functional specification? It depends on who your audience is and where you are in the product development cycle. People often confuse the purpose and role of functional ...