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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 [...]
Happy St. Patrick's Day
It's St. Patricks Day today. When i was younger...and when i lived in Chicago, this was a bid deal. The city was one big party. The river is dyed green, the street lines painted green, the big parade, and the full pubs and bars made this evident. Today, after work, I have [...]
It's a Schmart World Afterall
We have a new fun widget on SchmartBoard. http://www.schmartboard.com/index.asp?page=schmartlandWe now have a map of the world with photos and descriptions of circuits built with SchmartBoard. We only have 13 up there now....so we need your's. Send us your circuit photo, name location and description to get involved. Be the first in [...]
New Schmartie Post
I will post new circuits in this blog when they come in as we approach the home stretch of the contest whcih ends at the end of the year.N.Harinath Raja of Ramnagar, Hyderabad, India has posted Wireless Data Linkhttp://www.schmartdeveloper.org//tiki-index.php?page=wireless+data+linkAccording to Mr. Raja: "The goal of the project design is simple and easy to implement. Asynchronous [...]
Our Awesome Support Team
Our Awesome Support TeamI was on a hike this weekend and someone who knew of SchmartBoard asked if we had in-house talent to do the Professor Schmart characatures and our great website. I told the person we did not and forwarded the information to them about our fantastic contractors. This was certainly not the [...]
From the Home of the Olympics
Giannis Kedros is one of the participants in the 2007 Schmartie Awards. This student from the Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki Greece may be the man to beat. He is looking for the gold medal by posting the most circuits. His Schmartie page is at: http://www.schmartdeveloper.org/tiki-index.php?page=G.Kedros&blCircuits posted include: an Ethernet Module, [...]
Schmart Videos
Have you been watching the Schmart videos on YouTube? I have, and they are fun, as well as being informative.I especially liked the one showing a BGA package being mounted. In the voice-over you will note that Schmart only covers 1mm pitch devices right now. For prototyping I am not sure we want to contemplate [...]
New Distributors and Other News
New distributors and other newsJust a quick note on a couple new distributors. San Diego Electronic Supplyhttp://www.sdelectronicsupply.com/ in of all places, San Diego Cal., now has SchmartBoard available in their retail location. Many thousands of miles to the east(or west) aavrs of The Netherlands www.aavrs.nl will be selling SchmartBoards. In other news, we [...]