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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 [...]
Gobble Gobble
Gobble Gobble!Happy Thanksgiving -Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in America. Thanksgiving generally comemerates the sharing of the harvest by the native people with the newly arrived Europeans to the new world. It is a time that we remember and celerbrate all that we have to be thankful for with friends and neighbors. With that [...]
Schmarties are Heating Up!
Schmarties are heating upWith just over a month to post circuits for the Schmartie awards, participants from all corners of the planet are posting those entrys. The winner will receive $1000 and commission on a SchmartModule based on their circuit that will be available worldwide. Other great prizes will also be awarded.Schmartie AwardsPort [...]
Mini Me
For those of us who do not have an iPhone, it is sometimes tough to find information in the PDA or phone web browser. I know because sometimes all I want is to see if the Chicago Bulls have won and instead all I get is a headache. With this in mind, I [...]
Monday Schtuff
Just a few things:Schmartie Award UpdateRobert Gatt from Australia has recently posted the schematic for the Schmarties. The "Picaxe 18 prototype board" can be found at: http://www.schmartdeveloper.org/tiki-index.php?page=robertgatt&blRobertwas one of the winners in the 2006 Schmarties with his "Nokia Lcd Interface." and he is Schmart enough to try and win again. Two more [...]
Schmartboard in Subtitles
Once a week I Google SchmartBoard to read some of the chatter. I find postings on forums for every type of DIY or hacking imaginable. I also find us mentioned on blogs and articles. Every so often I find something unexpected. I do not know who, but someone has taken one [...]
Teach a Man to Fish
It is so important for individuals and for organizations to give back. SchmartBoard has in the past given a percentage of sales for disaster relief for hurrican Katrina and the tsunami vicitims in the south Pacific. One of the more rewarding endeavorshas been involvement in a program called BUILDwww.build.org.While giving cash proceeds to [...]
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