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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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!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 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 [...]
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 [...]