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May is FREE Header Month
Schmartboard sells a lot of headers and jumpers. We do for two reasons. First, our jumpers are better quality than many of our competitors who all source the same product through the same Chinese factory. You will find that the male and female receptacles on Schmartboard jumpers are thinner than most on the [...]
Hope For Our Future Runs Eternal
We are inundated by bad news, bad statistics, bad ethics, bad manners and bad expectations for the future. Many of us yearn for a time when it seemed like things were more positive, more manageable, more ethical and most importantly more hopeful. Every so often we experience, even if for a few hours, a [...]
SCHM{ART}
Schmartboard has produced some advertising photos that we just call SCHM{ART}. Which is your favorite? Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Photo 6 Photo 7 Photo 8
The Future of Everything.
Schmartboard was a co-sponsor in a competition for the Ferriss Project. The competition was entitled Visions of Tomorrowland. As a sponsor, Schmartboard's Neal Greenberg, was also a judge. Criteria for the judging included creativity, artistic, and uniqueness. The judging was split into 3 age groups from very young though high school.Many [...]
New Schmartboard "Bread Protoboard" Buy 2, Get 1 Free in April!
Schmartboard's New Bread/Proto Boards’ are laid out exactly like a standard breadboard. Have you ever had to move a circuit to a prototyping board after first laying it out on a breadboard? Not Fun!With these boards you can either remove the parts from a standard 400 or 830 Tie Breadboard one at a time and [...]
Visions of Tomorrowland
Schmartboard is happy to be a sponsor of the Ferriss Project Visions of Tomorrowland. According to the website:Students are asked to address some or all of the following questions:What do you think the world will look like in 2065? What will cars be like? How will humans communicate? What will our major problems be? What [...]
The Joys of Giving Back to the Community-Ohlone College
Schmartboard believes in giving back to our community. By community we mean both local geographically or our community of users, which is worldwide. Examples of our involvement in our user community are many of the user groups for Robotics, Electronics and other DIY groups. A great current example is the yearly BotBrawl [...]
Equal Opportunity PIC Programming Cables
Did you know that Schmartboard supplies Microchip PIC Programming Cables. Previously the programming cable we offered was female(as in our 920-0055-01). Many of the newer Microchip boards now require a male interface on the programming cable. The solution offered by Microchip is a little adapter to turn the female cable into a [...]
From Breadboard to Protoboard--There Must Be a Better Way!
Breadboards are used by many involved in electronics from the DIYer to the student to the professional. It is especially used by the newer electronics enthusiast or student. Many times a circuit is laid out on a breadboard to assure proper functionality and then moved to a protoboard, where it can be soldered for [...]
Jumpers, Jumpers and More Jumpers
Back when Schmartboard formed, we started making wire jumpers to support our boards. We were not happy with what was on the market and we found a great manufacturing partner to work with who could give us better quality than what was being sold by "competitors" at a good price. We started with [...]