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Collegiate SchmartBowl Contest
Collegiate SchmartBowl ContestWith the Schmartie awards finished...I'm kind of bored. So this weekend I thought about a newcontest. Many of our boards are sold for education.....so we are having a contest for students and educators. Weare asking participants to tell us in text, photos or videos about their experience with SchmartBoards. [...]
Announcing the 2nd Annual Schmartie Winners
Announcing the 2nd Annual Schmartie Winners!!!Schmartie Award participants, as a part of the SchmartDeveloper program, posted electronic circuit designs with a bill of materials that included the correct SchmartBoards (prototype boards) to the company's "SchmartDeveloper" website.The grand prize winner receives a $1000 cash prize, and SchmartBoard will manufacture and market a SchmartModule product with the [...]
Schmarties-Almost Like U.S. Politics
While I watch the US election wars on TV and shake my head, I kind of chuckle. While Hillary and Bill gang up on Barak, and Mitt says that John is not conservative and Rudy makes his stand in Florida, and Fred just says the heck with it and drops out, the rest of [...]
Screensaver
Do you love our monthly Professor Schmart cartoons? Many have told us they do. So, we got around to creating ascreensaverwith Professor Schmart. By the way, people send us ideas for what the professor should be doing for our monthly cartoons. If we use your idea, you'll receive a full panel [...]
Electronic Kits--The Schmart Way
I'm sitting at Sujus Coffee in Fremont, CA, watching the rain....we even had some thunder and lightning..which is rare here. I am working on SchmartKits. For some time, I had talked to a number of kit companies to convince them to use EZ technology on their boards. It would allow them [...]
Schmarties End in 6 Hours
SchmartBoard will be looking at all the entries to determine 1st, 2nd, 3rdand 3 honorable mentions. Here are a few of the entriesIR proximity DetectorUSB -> Serial and I2C Module2 Channel Motor DriverWireless Data LinkFM TransmitterTTL Test BoardLCD Graphics Display ModuleSimple PWM Controlled Dual Motor DriverIsolated Line Voltage Power Switch/DimmerPicaxe 28X1 Project BoardSCHMART DSP COPROCESSORLED [...]
My Present to You
Well..it's the holiday season. SchmartBoard will be closed between Christmas and New Years, I will be in Chicago, our engineers will be doing whatever engineers do with their off time. I wanted to give you, one of my few but precious blog readers a present. I would like to tell you about [...]
What Do You Think?
SchmartBoard plans to make some major changes to the website in 2008 that will add significant value toenginners, educators and hobbyists. We put out a request to take a survey and many have responded. In fact we have 80 people from the US, UK, India, Netherlands, Canada, Turkey, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, [...]
The Home Stretch
With less than 1 month to go in the Schmartie Awards, a new slew of entrants are signing up. In this week alone, new entrants represent people from Canada, India, Lebanon, England, and The US. There is still time.....if you want in on the great prizes that include cash, a soldering station from [...]
Low Jitter Quadrature Clock
Charles Wenzel of Austin Texas has posted his Low Jitter Quadrature Clockin the Schmartie Awards.This clock circuit generates in phase and quadrature clock signals of both polarities from a simple clock oscillator IC. A noise shunt on the power supply line reduces noise from the voltage regulator, typically a three-terminal IC. It uses a [...]