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SchmartDuino?

SchmartBoard will soon post a schematic on our forum. We believe that it’s about time that Arduino users had the ability to use SMT components. If you agree, we need your help in making that need a reality.  Think about what we should include on each shield.  The first shields will be to support 1.27mm and .65mm SO ICs.  We will ask what should be supported and why.  More to come soon.

We believe that it’s about time that Arduino users had the ability to use SMT components. If you agree, we need your help in making that need a reality.   A survey which will help us do this right, is now up on our forum.  Look for “Schmartboard Arduino”

Photo Archive from Japan

This photo archive comes from Shinhi Kasaki in Moriya-city Japan. This Digital Animation Voltage Meter
This device shows voltage value with animation on LCD color display LTA042B010F. Voltage range is from 0.00V to 5.00V. The sampling rate is 20ms interval. Additional information such as maximum value, minimum value and average are shown bottom of the LCD display. Depend on voltage value, the animation will change, so easy to understand voltage is high or low without seeing the actual voltage value. When the voltage will be higher voltage, the animation will move quickly and become.

 

DFN Now Useable on Breadboards

Schmartboard has released two new SMT to DIP adapters that use the patented "ez" technology, which makes soldering the surface mount component simple. The SMT to DIP adapters have been our fastest growing family of products in the few months that we have been marketing it.  The reason is that many users are in a quandary because they still need to use a breadboard and in many cases and only surface mount components are available. No other company has a solution to easily solder components such as QFN and DFN, so there has not been a cost-effective, usable solution until now.

The two new boards are the first released that support DFN devices.  Part number 204-0021-01 gives you the ability to use two 8 lead, .5mm pitched DFN components.  Part 204-0022-01 supports two 10 lead, .5mm pitched DFN components. The suggested retail on each of these new products is $6.00

Schmartboard plans to release new products for this family over the next year until all of the most popular QFN and DFN chip package sizes are supported for breadboard use. 

The Final GreenArrays/SchmartBoard Winner is Announced!

Today is the final giveaway of a GreenArrays GA144 IC with a SchmartBoard to mount it on.  Drum Roll.......The winner is Jack Rosen with Electronic Consultants in Farmington Hills MI.  Jack will put it to good use: "Application is to use cores for multiple/similar PID algorithms to replace functional multiple National LM 629 controllers that I have in place now. I currently have multiple test and working CNC platforms to build and test from as well as prior FORTH experience on 68XX/68XXX."

Congratulations to Jack.

For thse interested in winning something from us, we give away an SMT to DIP adapter of your choice everyday on our Facebook Fan Page.

This Week's GreenArrays Winner is for a GreenHouse

The winner this week is Ed Sisler of All Systems in Mishawaka Indiana.

According to Ed, he plans to use it for "green house, watering and heat controller, solar powered, self contained (no external power required in green house)"

Congratulations Ed.  We will announce another winner next Wednesday!

 

GreenArrays Winner Goes for A Worthy Cause

This weeks winner af a GreenArrays GA144 IC and a SchmartBoard to mount it on is Dennis Norwood of ABR Technologies in Georgetown TX.  Dennis plans to use it for "Development of high end robotic devices to help with prosthetic devices."  You only have to enter once to have a chance to win each week.  We have two weeks left.  Sign up now to have a chance at next week's pick.

SchmartBoard Photo Archive From Apopka Florida

According to Thatcher Howard: "These SchmartBoards were used for my ATE bench.  They made testing harnesses and CCA a lot easier and faster with large batches."

Send us your Schmartboard project photo for posting and receive a free Schmartboard t-shirt to impress your friends.

Bon Jour to This Week's GreenArrays Winner!

The winner of this week's GreenArrays/SchmartBoard winner come to us from Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris.  Mr. Peter Hanappe will use the board and IC in the following manner.: "Earth System models are complex pieces of software that are composed of many different sub-models, including the atmosphere dynamics, ocean currents, cloud formation, long-wave and short-wave radiation in the atmosphere. I believe that the architecture of the GA144 would be well adapted to accelerate the computation of the atmospheric radiation (see me previous work on this topic, using the U.K. Met Office climate model: http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/4/835/2011/gmd-4-835-2011.html) and I'd love to put the chip to the test.

If you aren't signed up to win, we are giving one of these away each week in November.  Sign up today!

This Week's GreenArrays Winner is Wunderbar.

The winner of this weeks GreenArray GA144 IC with a SchmartBoard is Manfred Hild of  Humboldt University / Informatik in Germany.  What will Mr. Hild use his prize for?  According to Manfred:  "We are using fully distributed architectures to control humanoid robots - not only regarding real-time sensorimotor loops, but also within the context of complex behavior and learning. See www.neurorobotics.eu for details, especially the paper "Myon: Concepts and Design of a Modular Humanoid Robot Which Can Be Reassembled During Runtime. We plan to investigate the use of GA144 chips for our next generation robots."

SchmartBoard is proud to be involved, even in a little way, towards helping promote progress towards that endeavor. 

Have you signed up to win yet?  We still have 5 more weeks left to win.

SchmartBoard Photo Archive From Mesa Arizona

According to Stan Cloyed: "My project involved getting breadboard hookups on a chip only available in a not standard foot print QFP-44 package.  You guys keep developing products along these lines but I did it my way."