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Party with Schmartboard and the Oakland Raiderettes
Schmartboard, has relocated to the historic Centerville section of Fremont, CA. Join us on October 12 th from Noon to 3 P.M. as we celebrate our new location. Come and meet and have your photo taken with Oakland Raiderettes: Chanel Nichols and Ashley Brown ***Hand solder a chip using Schmartboard’s patented “EZ” technology which makes hand soldering fast and easy Contest with prizes from Schmartboard, [...]
New Digs for Schmartboard
Schmartboard is a small, nimble company. We all wear many hats and are all involved in pursuing our mantra of "Electronic for Everyone". To this end, we do think out of the box. Inventing and perfecting our "EZ" solder technology required that we looked at electronics from a different perspective.One of the [...]
Through Hole Arduino is Coming and With It a Plethora of Surface Mount
Schmartboard has been shipping our .5, .6 and 1.27mm SOIC prototyping shields now for a year. We have done very well with them. At, $15 including the headers and other hardware it is a true bargain. We had planned on releasing many different SMT Arduino Prototyping Shields for SOIC, QFP, QFN and [...]
Schmartboard PSoC Cometh
We are almost ready to release our Cypress PSoC development board. Schmartboard’s patented “EZ” technology allows you to add PSoC processors and also a I2C EEPROM (package type TSSOP8)The board will support any Cypress PSoC 68-pin QFN from the High-performance 8-bit 8051 based PSoC3 and the ARM® Cortex™ - M3 based PSoC5 or PSoC5LP The board's DIP packaging layout plugs [...]
Schmartboard Jumpers-Not Everything is Apples to Apples
When buying jumpers from Schmartboard or any other source, consider the following: What gauge is it? There may be a reason it is not published. Ours are 28 gauge.Is there a UL approval? Temperature rating? Ours have them.Are the male or female ends of the jumper gold immersion? Many will try to save money by forgoing this [...]
Texas Instruments MSP430F5172 Development SchmartModule
Schmartboard has just released a new product. The Texas Instruments MSP430F5172 Development SchmartModule. This board is an easily to use platform featuring the MSP430F5172 from Texas Instruments. This 4th generation MSP430 includes a 25 MHz core, a 10 bit Analog to digital converter, a 32 bit hardware multiplier, and a precision Timer D [...]
2 New Microcontroller Products to be Released this Month.
This month we plan to release 2 new products. The first is a product for the Cypress PSoC. We have been working for a long time with Cypress personnel to bring this to market. It will be a low cost solution for utilizing this exceptional Microcontroller. We are also going to release [...]
New SMT to DIP Adapter
Schmartboard has released our latest entry into our SMT to DIP family. It is for 0.5mm Pitch 40 Pin QFP/QFN ICs. As with all members of this family, it allows you to use today's advanced components on a bread board. This product is an QFP/QFN to DIP adapter with a twist. These [...]
Schmartboard Now In Switzerland
Schmartboard products are now available to our Swiss users, locally.Boxtec was founded 2003 and is specialized in providing open source hardware to private, educational and business customers. Boxtec empowers makers, electronic DIY microcontroller and robotics enthusiasts with the prototyping parts and tools they need to realize their projects the quickest possible. Christoph Schneeberger who is responsible for new products and [...]
Arduino...Schmartboard Style
We are finally shipping our Arduino SMT Prototyping shields. The biggest holdup, believe it or not was sourcing the female headers. You'd be surprised how much some suppliers wanted to charge us for these. We wanted to keep the suggested retail, with all of the components(and even some optional components included) to [...]