Located in
Victoria, Canada
250-885-2137
History
Inspired Electrons is the natural evolution of a previous business - Lightning Circuits, which began operation in 1989, when founder Chris Paynter saw a need for a quick-turn PCB prototyping service. He set up a dark room, bought a prehistoric Excellon PCB drill and mass-mailed a tiny circuit board with contact information to everyone he could think of . *** If you've got one of these boards, please or call - we'd love to see one again!
What started as PCB manufacturing quickly turned into PCB layout work, and then circuit and firmware design. By the early 1990's, most of the designs were migrating to surface mount and multi-layer PCBs, and the PCB manufacturing gave way to embedded systems development.
Lightning Circuits is now Inspired
Electrons, which embodies both the technical
aspects of our embedded systems designs, as well as
the creative force behind them.
October 2010 - new PCB layouts for Poncho Wilcox Engineering.
May 2010 - Micro C and Micro T Conductivity and Temperature sensors, with Inter.X board to allow exchanging any X series swappable sensor. AML Oceanographic.
April 2008 - released production firmware for Applied Microsystems new SV•Xchange™ sound
velocity sensor. This is the world's first
field-swappable SV sensor.
September 2007 - PCB design for Stanton SC
digital turntable / mixer combo. This is a pro-audio
product which won a 2008 Crystal Disk Award at the 107th
NAMM show in California. This was a challenging project,
with 15 PCBs in total, many of which were multilayer,
controlled impedance designs.
November 2006 - delivery of production prototypes of optical timing gates for inForm Sport Training Systems. These have been redesigned to fit into the great new cases designed by Codetta Product Design.
