Earn AISLER Store Credit by sharing Appnotes, Deep Dives and Community Tips

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Starting today, we’re rolling out a new way to say thank you for all the knowledge you share in our community.

From now on, selected posts in three dedicated forum categories will earn AISLER Store Credit:

AISLER Store Credit is added to your account and can be used towards future orders in our shop (more on how Store Credit works here).

The smallest things first: Community Tips

Community Tips are our short, punchy, highly practical nuggets.

They’re perfect for moments like: “I’ve just found this brilliant part/tool/trick – others should see this.”

Community Tips are:

  • quick to read and quick to write

  • focused on one specific idea

  • immediately actionable

Typical Community Tips might be:

  • a fun or particularly useful component, with part numbers and a link

  • a simple layout or workflow trick that saves time

If your Community Tip is accepted, you’ll receive 20 € AISLER Store Credit.

Go a bit deeper: Deep Dives

Deep Dives are our home for educational guides that help others properly understand a topic and make better decisions across many projects.

They are less about one specific PCB and more about:

  • concepts and principles

  • typical problems and trade-offs

  • practical rules of thumb that can be reused

Think along the lines of:

  • how to optimise a BOM for cost, availability and assembly

  • how to choose trace widths for signals and power

A good Deep Dive:

  • explains why something matters,

  • shows common pitfalls,

  • and leaves the reader with clear, practical guidance they can apply in their own designs.

If your Deep Dive is accepted, you’ll receive 50 € AISLER Store Credit.

For full design recipes: Circuit Appnotes

Circuit Appnotes are our flagship content.

If Community Tips are a quick “have you seen this?” and Deep Dives are “here’s how to think about this”, Circuit Appnotes are:

“Here is exactly how I designed this circuit and how you can reuse the approach safely.”

A Circuit Appnote usually:

  • starts from a specific circuit and use case
    (for example, a particular LDO configuration, input filter or sensing stage),

  • lays out the design constraints
    (voltages, currents, temperature, layout limits, lifetime),

  • discusses the important parameters and non-idealities
    (derating, tolerance, ESR, layout effects, thermal behaviour),

  • walks through a step-by-step design process,

  • and ends with a clear recommendation that others can adapt for their own boards.

If your post is accepted as a Circuit Appnote, you’ll receive 100 € AISLER Store Credit.

Circuit Appnotes are moderated carefully: we check for technical coherence, structure, originality, and that the post really feels like a small application note, not just a quick comment.

How moderation and timing work

All three rewarded categories – Community Tips, Deep Dives and Circuit Appnotes – are moderated.

That means:

  • every submission is reviewed by the AISLER team before it goes live

  • we may move a post to a different category if it fits better there

  • we may tweak titles slightly for clarity and searchability

We aim to review all submissions within 5 business days.
If we have questions or need clarification, we’ll get in touch via e-mail from: developer-relations@aisler.net :love_letter: So if you see that address in your inbox, that’s us following up on your contribution.

Original work only and how we may feature it

To keep the programme fair and useful for everyone:

  • Plagiarised content will not be accepted.
    Please don’t copy manufacturer appnotes, blog posts or other sites and paste them into the forum.

  • Short quotes and screenshots from datasheets, tools or standards are absolutely fine, as long as:

    • they are clearly marked as quotes, and

    • you reference the original source.

By submitting a post in one of the rewarded categories, you agree that:

  • you hold the rights to the text and images (or have permission to use them), and

  • AISLER may:

    • publish your post in the forum,

    • feature it on our social channels,

    • and highlight it in newsletters or other communication,

always with your name or username credited as the author.

Make hardware less hard – together

At its core, this is very simple:

  • You design, debug, learn and discover things.

  • You write them down once.

  • The whole community benefits.

  • And you get Store Credit to power the next idea on your bench.

You’ll now find the three categories in the forum:

  • Community Tips – for the small discoveries that make a big difference

  • Deep Dives – for deeper understanding and better decisions

  • Circuit Appnotes – for full circuit guides that others can reuse

We’re looking forward to seeing what you’ll share. :orange_heart: