Starting today, every business day, SchmartBoard will have a daily special. The deals will range from 20% to 67% off of the normal price. Today for instance, our special is a 6 piece wire brush set. Here are the details: 6-Pc. Mini Wire Brush Set Overall Length:175mm Width:15mm Bristle Material:Brassed Steel [...]
Our MCU Challenge is now 30 days in. It is fun and amazing to hear the ideas that entrants have for projects. I wish I could share with you..but alas, that would give competitors a potential edge. I will say though that if the implementation and documentation is as good as some [...]
We currently have two development boards using our "ez" technology. One for Microchip and the other for Parallax. The great thing about these boards is that the user can hand solder the MCU themselves, which means they can pick the MCU of their choice. In the case of the MicroChip PIC, our [...]
SchmartBoard has announced the 2010 MCU Challenge. The 2010 Schmartboard MCU Challenge is effectively 3 contests in one. We have separate challenges for creating circuits using the SchmartBoard 710-0004-01 board for the Microchip 8 Bit PIC MCU, 710-0005-01 for Parallax Propeller and 710-0006-01 for Texas Instruments MSP430, Piccolo and Stellaris Cortex M3. Entrants [...]
I was at the Maker Faire yesterday. It killed me that we were there as visitors and not venders. What a gold mine of talented, motivated creative, dare I say Schmart people. We had hoped to be there this year and were going to be there with a partner. [...]
SchmartBoard wants to give you a free board!SchmartBoard has a new Forum with 200+ members and no posts. We are offering a bribe to jumpstart the forum. We are practically begging to give away 100 free SchmartBoards' in the month of May. All you have to do is sign up with our Forum, [...]
Hello:At the beginning of April, we will officially launch a new SchmartBoard forum that will be more powerful and useful than the Yahoo groups pge. We will use it to quickly answer questions and allow users to post photos, etc.I'd like to invite SchmartBlog readers access to the site before it becomes announced next month. [...]
These new boards support SMT connectors from companies such as Hirose, Molex, Samtec and Tyco.They supported pitches are .4mm, .5mm, 8mm, 1.0mm, and 1.27mm.They also use our patented SchmartBoard|ez technology.SchmartBoard|ez is our solution for hand soldering surface-mount components. Users have been asking us to support SMT connectors for some time now”. In fact, [...]
SchmartBoard has posted a new combo product today, made up of our best selling items for 33% off of buying the parts individually. http://www.schmartboard.com/index.asp?page=products_combo&id=310
SchmartBoard Is Looking For Your Input We need your input of some ideas for future modules. It will onl y take 1 minute of your time. If you make a recommendation that we haven't thought of and we use it, we will pay you $10 in SchmartMoney. [...]