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I-Connect007 Editor’s Choice: Five Must-Reads for the Week

08/07/2026 | Nolan Johnson, I-Connect007
Are you familiar with the “locus of control," which describes how much we believe our actions can change the outcome of our lives? Internal locus of control, for example, is the belief that our actions greatly shape our outcomes; external locus of control holds that external forces have a greater influence than our actions on how our lives play out. How we view our own locus of control can strongly influence how we respond to the world, perhaps even creating a self-fulfilling prophecy situation. The news has taken a more languid pace this week. Not so, however, for our intrepid band of I-Connect007 columnists, who thoughtfully tackle some chunky locus of control topics.

Removing the Bottleneck: ZOT's Transition to Direct Imaging

08/05/2026 | Marcy LaRont, I-Connect007
For many PCB fabricators, solder mask imaging can become one of the biggest constraints on production. Traditional exposure methods often involve lengthy setup times, multiple process steps, and opportunities for registration errors, leading to costly rework. ZOT Engineering Ltd., a UK-based contract electronics manufacturer specializing in PCB fabrication and assembly, recently modernized this part of its process by partnering with Schmoll Maschinen to deploy a maskless direct imaging (MDI) system.

SMTA Bright Manufacturing Challenge Enters Its Second Year With 30 Teams

08/04/2026 | Marcy LaRont, I-Connect007
SMTA’s second annual Bright Manufacturing Challenge kicked off July 1 and will end at SMTAI in October as college students from 30 teams (nearly double from the first year) compete to build a robot from the design to fabrication to assembly. Finalists will watch as the robots they built race for the first-place award. SMTA’s Tara Dunn talks about the program and this year’s challenge, what they’ve learned, and how excited the students are to be involved.

Nolan’s Notes: The CMMC Certification Question Mark

08/04/2026 | Nolan Johnson -- Column: Nolan's Notes
About a year ago, the Global Electronics Association published a report, “Interconnected: Global Electronics Trade in an Age of Disruption,” which made a convincing case that the electronics industry is the most globally interconnected industry on the planet. But those digital connections come with a warning label: Storing and transferring large amounts of intellectual property means facing data security challenges we’ve never seen before.

Elementary, Mr. Watson: Inside the Display Power Loop

08/06/2026 | John Watson -- Column: Elementary, Mr. Watson
In my previous column, I traced the evolution from fixed physical interfaces to dynamic, software-defined displays, and saw how a familiar model of input and output slowly gave way to something far more fluid. That foundation begs the question: If the display has become the center of interaction, what does that change about how we design the systems behind it?
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