Inspire and Educate through Open-Source Hardware Products with Lukas Henkel

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
Subscribe to Robert Feranec Youtube Channel
Watch all previous Altium OnTrack Podcast episodes
Watch related episodes:
Robert Feranec and IoT Security
Open Source Ventilator Project (OSV) Combats Ventilator Shortage
Seven Design Guidelines to Break Bad Habits from Using Open-Source Designs



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