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WOW!..We are almost there?!
Boy, are we late!…but, we are finally in the home stretch of our beta testing. We have made major improvements over the past month. Honestly, we invited our beta testers too early and we apologize for that. Thank you for you participation and your understanding.We’d like you to go online once again to check out [...]
Delays, Delays, Delays!!!
We have been delayed in the launch of Solderbynumbers.com .Why?….We know hardware…not software!We do believe that it will launch sometime in October though.Why should you care?It will be the first social network for the electronics industry.It will also support the needs of numerous user types.Here are some of the features to look [...]
I'm still here!
Well....I have been AWOL on this blog for over two weeks. Generally I like to post at least weekly. Have I been lazy?, on some epic summer adventure?, too engaged in the Chicago Cubs magical season?...not exactly. Readers of this blog know that we are building a social networking site for electronics [...]
New Product Makes Hand Soldering Through Hole a Breeze
Students and hobbyists who are involved in electronics must eventually learn to hand solder components.It is often difficult, messy and frustrating.Even for experienced solderers’, tight spaces can create a nightmare scenario.With the advent of SchmartSolder, anyone can now hand solder through-hole components no matter how close together they are.In addition, the soldering will look like [...]
My Kind of Town
Do you drink Starbucks? Are you familiar with the story of Starbucks? In the book "Pour Your Heart Into It", Howard Schultz the CEO tells this great story. I recomemnd the book to anyone who likes the coffee or has an interest in how great businesses are started. In the [...]
Vanity Search
Have you ever done a vanity search..you know, Googled yourself. I imagine we all have...I did one today.....no my narcissism has it's limits..it was on "SchmartBoard", not me.I found many good sites within our 15600 hits. Here are a few on them that I thought were cool:Cool Site #1Cool Site #2Cool Site #3Cool [...]
New SchmartBoard Distributor
So what's the big deal about a new SchmartBoard distributor? Is it worth a blog post and the time of my readers to know that another distributor carries SchmartBoard?...YES The Curious Inventor first came to my attention a few months ago, due to the great videos posted on the site. In today's [...]
A Very Pleasant Surprise
This weekend, Friday through Sunday to be exact, I was at RoboGames in San Francisco showing off SchmartBoards. My friends at Servo Magazine had asked me if we'd be interested in being there. I certainly wanted the opportunity to show our wares and spend time with the folks at Servo who are very [...]
Be a Cartoon!
I came across a very cool website, www.befunky.comIn 5 minutes I was able to create this cartoon of me.This has positively nothing to do with SchmartBoard or electronics.....but I really like this. I plan to create some cartoons of friends and surprise them.Not only does it look like me, but I made [...]
Free Nuts & Volts or Servo Magazine Subscription
We will be at the RoboGames in San Francisco this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the booth of Servo Magazine. We will be doing a demo of hand soldering SMT parts on SchmartBoard. We'll also have coupons for customers who plan to buy SchmartBoards this month to receive a free magazine subscription to [...]
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