Archive - Ignacio's Newsletter

The document that prevents projects from quietly derailing

The simplest way to turn EMC uncertainty into a managed risk

Dec 23 • Ignacio de Mendizabal

November 2025

Standards are (not) boring

Boring turns valuable with purpose

Nov 13 • Ignacio de Mendizabal

October 2025

Too much unclarity around the CE marking

Shouldn’t it be much easier?

Oct 15 • Ignacio de Mendizabal

June 2025

Leakage Current: The Part of EMC No One Talks About

It is just never about EMC

Jun 6 • Ignacio de Mendizabal

Did we build the right thing right? Testing our new Near-Field Probe kit

Jun 6 • Ignacio de Mendizabal

May 2025

Learning EMC while we wait for the samples

May 9 • Ignacio de Mendizabal

Designing your own kit of Near-Field Probes

May 3 • Ignacio de Mendizabal

EMC filters that look right but don’t work

May 2 • Ignacio de Mendizabal

April 2025

Designing good enough Near Field Probes

Apr 4 • Ignacio de Mendizabal

January 2025

Building a Hardware Startup is hard

Hardware Startups have it 10x harder to sell a hardware product

Jan 30 • Ignacio de Mendizabal

November 2024

Become a good manufacturer with the Radio European Directive

One of the most common questions I get when talking about certifications and selling devices in the European Union is:

Nov 1, 2024 • Ignacio de Mendizabal

October 2024

Exciting updates coming!

I am currently migrating my newsletter from Kit to Substack.

Oct 4, 2024 • Ignacio de Mendizabal

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