Lukas Henkel, our guest in this episode was already into electronic engineering at age 10.

He will share with us what made him interested in designing electronics, some details about the development of his Open-source laptop project, and will even give us a sneak peek of the actual design development on Altium Designer.

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Episode Highlights:

Lukassz Lawrocki, Technical Marketing Manager at Altium makes a special appearance to explain Altium’s new initiative that encourages and supports electrical engineers to create open-source projects

The open source Laptop project by Lukas Henkel is the first project to be supported by this new initiative

Introduction to Lukas Henkel

Lukas talks about his background and his first electronic project at age 10

Robert Feranec  and the Altium OnTrack Podcast are just a couple of Lukas’s inspirations for discovering his interest in electronics and PCB design

Lukas chose a laptop for his open-source project because of its composition—a variety of components working together

Electrical vs mechanical, which one did Lukas find more challenging?

The laptop project will have a full aluminum body, which is a cheaper choice for producing prototypes in a smaller volume

Lukas talks about why the flex part of the enclosure is one of the challenging parts of his project

While there are commercial and open-source tools to help with high-speed signal optimization, complex optimization problems are best solved through a manual process — comparing solutions and comparing the impact of each domain

Lukas shares his transition from working with Semikron to his own company, OV Tech

Zach and Lukas exchange experiences in running their companies - challenges, projects, and clients

Lukas encourages everyone who is interested to learn more about his open-source laptop to follow him on LinkedIn for development updates

Design Demonstration via Altium designer

Watch for Lukas's next project, the Open Source Smartwatch

Links and Resources:

• Connect with Lukas Henkel via LinkedIn

• Robert Feranec and IoT Security

Read: Open Source Hardware & PCB Projects in Altium Designer

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