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How I Got My Brain Back (and a Medical PCB Too)

353 0 Apr 07.2025, 15:20:23

Now, I don’t usually meddle in high technology. I’m a simpler kind of fellow — give me a cup of black coffee, a pencil, and the morning sun, and I’m happy as a hound with two tails. But the world’s gone and changed on me. Everything’s got a circuit these days — even my blasted toothbrush plays music.So when my nephew Billy, who thinks AI is going to take over breakfast someday, came to me talking about his wearable ECG gadget, I listened. Mostly because he owed me $42 and was finally trying to do something useful.Billy had a plan, a sketch, a dream. What he didn’t have was a medical PCB assembly — or a clue how to get one. The first “PCB assembly manufacturer” he tried charged him more than my first house and gave him a board that looked like it’d been run over by a stagecoach.Enter me, Uncle Clem, the man with no electronics degree but a strong instinct for sniffing out nonsense. I told him, “Son, you need to stop barking up the wrong manufacturer. There’s this outfit I’ve heard of — ...