Great for building a prototype of an electronic circuit, single side copper PCB. Referencing numbers printed on four sides for easy reference of individual holes.
Price: $ 25
Amico 3.5" x 2.8" DIY FR4 PCB Circuit Board Prototyping Prototype Stripboard
Great for building a prototype of an electronic circuit, single side copper PCB. Referencing numbers printed on four sides for easy reference of individual holes.
Ford Focus CC Convertible Top add-on module SmartTOP by Mods4cars
Roadster and convertible owners can now get even more convenience from their already high tech equipped cars. The aftermarket SmartTOP module offered by Mods4cars allows raising and lowering the top at the touch of a button, even while driving at slow speeds, as well as from afar via the factory remote fob.
“We now even support exotics like the Ford Focus Coupé-Cabriolet” says Mr. Tornow, the company’s PR-Manager, “We offer our SmartTOP technology to owners of convertible cars made by well-known auto makers like Alfa, Audi, BMW, Bentley, Ferrari, Ford, Mazda, Mercedes, Mini, Opel, Porsche, Volvo and VW!“
Drivers of these cars have the choice to add extra convenience of not having to hold down the top switch amongst other added features. This new universal Ford Focus CC controller chip takes the company one step closer to the goal to offer a solution for every modern hard- or soft-top convertible available today. For detailed product and purchasing information visit mods4cars online at: http:// www.mods4cars.com
About Mods4cars:
Mods4cars was founded in 2002 with the idea to add a highly demanded feature to the otherwise almost perfect Porsche Boxster: Comfort One-Touch roof operation while driving at slow speeds. The resulting product offered not only that, but also allowed quick and easy installation by just swapping out a relay box, thus leaving no traces and no permanent changes on the vehicle. The first SmartTOP roof controller was born.
The success of their first products in Germany and Europe prompted them in late 2004 to move operations to the USA, to be able to serve the American market as well as all other English speaking countries such as Australia, UK and South Africa from one central location. Their business has grown to a full fledged international corporation with an office in California and a full line of innovative products as well as distributors and installation partners all over the globe.
Being highly specialized in the development and distribution of after market roof- and comfort controllers since 2002 allows them to offer an unsurpassed level of competence and product quality. Their main goal is optimization of each individual product to a maximum in compatibility, usability and intuitive operation. They put greatest effort into development and quality checks of all their products to achieve this goal and meet all expectations of their customers.
The extraordinary success of their products is also based on the great communication with their customers, which usually already starts for each new product during the development and prototyping phase.
Contact:
Sven Tornow
Mods4cars
21 Nottingham Rd
Ocean, NJ 07712
+1-310-9109055
tornow@mods4cars.com
http:// www.mods4cars.com
Amico 2 Pcs Prototyping Single Side PCB Board Stripboard Green 9x7cm
Great for building a prototype of an electronic circuit, single side copper PCB. Referencing numbers printed on four sides for easy reference of individual holes.
Price: $ 45
SchmartBoard Makes Hand-Soldering Though-Hole Easy
SchmartBoard today released a new product that makes it simple to hand solder through-hole components. This product embraces SchmartBoard’s mission statement of “Electronics for Everyone”
Students and hobbyists who are involved in electronics must eventually learn to hand solder components, which is often difficult, messy and frustrating. Even for those with experience, tight spaces can create a nightmare scenario. With the advent of SchmartSolder, anyone can now hand solder through-hole components no matter how close together they are. In addition, the soldering will look like it has been preformed by a pro.
SchmartSolder are loops of solder produced in just the right diameter to fit over the component leads. One places the solder over the lead and flush to the circuit board and simply touches the soldering iron to the SchmartSolder. The SchmartSolder quickly melts and flows into the hole. The result is a perfect, neatly soldered component with no cold solder joints or other flaws. A video showing the use of the product is viewable at: http://www.schmartboard.com/index.asp?page=resources_howto
“SchmartSolder is just another step in our mission to make ‘Electronics for Everyone’”. says SchmartBoard’s VP of Sales & Marketing, Neal Greenberg. “We previously perfected hand soldering of surface mount components with SchmartBoard|ez and with the addition of this new product, almost every type of electronic component on the market can be easily and flawless hand soldered. Our next step is to make reading electronic schematics easy for everyone which we will begin with the the launch of www.solderbynumbers.com on Sept. 8.”
The suggested retail price on SchmartSolder is $5.00 for 50 pieces and the product is available on SchmartBoard’s website and through SchmartBoard’s distributors.
SchmartBoardTM is committed to helping engineers, students and hobbyists develop electronic circuits faster, easier, and less expensively than previously possible. SchmartBoard’s patented Electronic Circuit Building Blocks makes this possible. SchmartBoard’s “EZ” Technology and Solder By NumbersTM program makes the soldering of surface mount components and circuit creation accessible to virtually anyone.
The SchmartBoard system is the fastest and easiest electronic circuit prototyping system ever conceived. The system supports through hole and surface mount components.
Pack of 30 Prototype Perfboard 2"x1.34" 250hole Epoxy Fiber Pitch 0.1"
PACK OF 25
Each Item:
Type: Pad Per Hole
Material: Epoxy Fiber
Size: 2×1.34 in - (52×34 mm)
Board Thickness: 0.039 in - (1 mm)
Copper Thickness: 35 Microns
Copper Square Size: 0.08×0.08 in - (2×2 mm)
Copper Square Quantity: 250 Pads
Hole Size: 0.039" 1mm (CNC Drilled)
Hole Pitch: 0.1 in - (2.54 mm)
Entire Hole Quantity: 250 Holes
Weight: 35g (1.23 oz)
Price: $ 45
DiSTI’s GL Studio Soars to New Heights
The DiSTI Corporation, a leading provider of advanced graphical interface technology, has announced that Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan’s experimental aircraft company and winner of the coveted Ansari X PRIZE for Space Flight in 2004, utilized DiSTI’s GL Studio to produce a comprehensive avionics systems solution for the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo vehicles, which Scaled is designing for Virgin Galactic, part of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. To date, the GL Studio-based avionics displays have performed successfully on over 40 WhiteKnightTwo flights, beginning with the inaugural flight on December 21, 2008, and several SpaceShipTwo flights.
GL Studio was ultimately selected by Scaled Composites in 2006 after a competitive evaluation of display development tools. Of critical importance to Scaled Composites during the evaluation was the ability of a single toolkit to support prototyping, training and embedding. With the ability to meet these demands, DiSTI’s industry leading GL Studio toolkit was utilized to develop displays for the carrier, spacecraft, ground station, and flight simulator.
Scaled Composites’ decision to incorporate GL Studio throughout the entire lifecycle of their avionics displays showcases the unique design features and efficiency offered by GL Studio. Engineers with Scaled Composites employed GL Studio to rapidly prototype the complex avionics displays and seamlessly integrated them into the training simulator for extended human factors testing. The same displays were moved into the VMS Eve Aircraft and the VSS Enterprise SpaceshipTwo where GL Studio supported prototyping, testing, training and embedded paradigms for each vehicle.
The development of VMS Eve and VSS Enterprise represents the ongoing quest to develop the World’s first commercial passenger-carrying spacecraft providing private sector access to space, using an environmentally benign launch system. The VMS Eve Aircraft carries the VSS Enterprise Spacecraft to a launch altitude of over 50,000 feet. When released from VMS Eve, the VSS Enterprise rockets into space, providing occupants with a view of the Earth seen by very few and the opportunity to experience zero gravity. This launch system builds on the successful flights of SpaceShipOne, the predecessor to VSS Enterprise, which ultimately earned Scaled Composites the Ansari X Prize for Space Flight in 2004.
“DiSTI is honored to be an integral part of such a historic endeavor,” said DiSTI President Joe Swinski. “Scaled Composites is realizing the aircraft manufacturer’s dream and the vision DiSTI set forth for display development; one tool to streamline and unify the user interface experience from prototyping to training to embedded avionics.”
“DiSTI’s software has enabled us to meet all of our goals for avionics development thus far,” said Scaled Composites’ Avionics Project Manager, Peter Kalogiannis. “We evaluated many options in the beginning and found GL Studio to be easy to work with and the best fit for our needs. Their software tools were instrumental to our success.”
The VMS Eve carried the VSS Enterprise on its inaugural flight on March 22, 2010. The inaugural solo flight of the VSS Enterprise spaceship was October 10, 2010. For more information, please visit www.scaled.com or www.virgingalactic.com.
DiSTI is a global leader in the development of Human Machine Interface software for businesses, governments and the military. The company’s flagship product, GL Studio, enables programmers and developers to build high-fidelity graphics, 3D simulations and fully interactive controls into their models, enhancing the level of realism and sophistication, while improving learning and retention.
More than 400 customers worldwide, including BAE, Boeing, Dassault, FedEx, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Raytheon and Thales, use DiSTI solutions to build maintenance trainers, create PC and Internet-based courseware and to develop components for safety-critical applications. As a full service provider, DiSTI offers a complement of customer programming and development services, and is the recognized leader in training solutions for the global simulation and training community. For more information, visit www.disti.com.
Amico 8.7" x 3.9" DIY FR4 PCB Circuit Board Prototyping Prototype Stripboard
Referencing numbers printed on four sides of the Prototype PCB Circuit Board Stripboard for easy reference of individual holes. Great for building a prototype of an electronic circuit, single side copper PCB.
Price: $ 45
SchmartBoard Offers a $30/Hr. Layout Special For First Time Customers
SchmartBoard is better known for its line of prototyping products, and less so, for its prototyping related services. SchmartBoard is planning a significant push to introduce companies to our service offerings through the 1st quarter of 2010. To begin the campaign, during the months of December 2009 through January 2010, PCB layout will be offered at 72% off our normal pricing of $108/hr.
“SchmartBoard has become the de facto product for hand soldering surface mount circuits together, which we are very happy about”, says Neal Greenberg, SchmartBoard’s VP of Sales and Marketing. “We also have a vibrant and competent engineering team who can add significant value to customers of SchmartBoards’ by offering other services to augment their prototyping needs. SchmartBoard gains most of its service customers from those who use our boards and referrals. They include everyone from start-ups to large corporate entities.”
In addition to PCB layout, SchmartBoard can offer PCB design, PCB fabrication, small and medium volume manufacturing, mechanical engineering and full turn-key services. We have an office in Fremont, CA and in Taiwan with all of the benefits of Asia at our disposal.
Inquiries can be made at info@schmartboard.com or by calling the main office. More information on our engineering and manufacturing services can be found at: http://www.schmartboard.com/index.asp?page=services
About SchmartBoard (www.schmartboard.com)
SchmartBoardTM is committed to helping engineers, students and hobbyists develop electronic circuits faster, easier, and less expensively than previously possible. SchmartBoard’s patented Electronic Circuit Building Blocks makes this possible. SchmartBoard’s “EZ” Technology and Solder By NumbersTM program makes the soldering of surface mount components and circuit creation accessible to virtually anyone.
The SchmartBoard system is the fastest and easiest electronic circuit prototyping system ever conceived. The system supports through hole and surface mount components.
Amico Prototyping Double Side PCB Board Stripboard Green 100x23mm
Great for building a prototype of an electronic circuit, double side copper PCB. Referencing numbers printed on four sides for easy reference of individual holes.
Price: $ 25
Designing the iPhone User Experience: A User-Centered Approach to Sketching and Prototyping iPhone Apps
Given the fiercely competitive state of the iPhone app landscape, it has become increasingly challenging for app designers and developers to differentiate their apps. The days are long gone when it was possible to crank out an app over the weekend and refine it after receiving a few not so flattering user reviews. Users now have choices -- lots of them. If your app is difficult to use or doesn't meet their needs, finding another one is just a tap away.
To illustrate, consider the ever-growing field of Twitter clients. There are hundreds of variations in the App Store but only a handful stand out from the pack (such as Tweetie or Twitterific). For most apps, it boils down to one thing: the user experience. The same is true for countless other categories within the App Store; well-designed apps are more likely to attract and retain users. Of course there are other critical aspects of iPhone app development: the coding, the marketing, the customer support. All of the elements must come together.
Designing the iPhone User Experience will help you tackle the user experience part of the iPhone challenge. Three key themes will be reinforced throughout the book: Know thy user, the Design Lifecycle, and Attention to Detail:
- Know Thy User
Millions of people depend on iPhone apps to get them to work, find their next meal, and stay in touch with family and friends. Professionals of all kinds also rely on iPhone apps: doctors look up drug interactions; photographers fine-tune lighting; cyclists find the best routes. To truly understand how your apps can fit into their lives, designers and developers must learn how users do things today, what's important to them, and what needs have not been met. Part II, Introduction to User Research, will introduce a variety of user research methods. - The Design Lifecycle
Award-winning designs rarely happen overnight; they usually only occur after many rigorous design cycles. To illustrate this point, consider USA TODAY's iPhone application, which went through at least seven iterations for the article view in their app. These kinds of iterations should happen before you launch your app, since it will save valuable time and money, not to mention the headaches a bad design could create for your user. More importantly, you may only have one chance to impress your users -- you do not want to sell them half-baked ideas. Part III, Developing your App Concept, will explain how to iteratively design and test your app concepts. - Attention to Detail
Most professionals know that attention to detail is important, but hundreds of apps fail to incorporate even the most basic design principles. This lack of attention is not merely an aesthetic issue (which is important) it also affects the way apps function. For example, a news article without proper alignment will be difficult to read, and a poorly rendered icon will be challenging to interpret. Apps with a razor sharp attention to detail will stand out because their apps will look good and perform well. Part IV, Refining your App Concept, will show you how to make to your app shine, from visual design and branding to accessibility and localization.
Price: $44.99
Maplesoft and VI-class combine to bring modern simulation methods of vehicle design
MapleSim connector for VI-CarRealTime enables engineers to enable high-fidelity, multi-domain MapleSim models created in the environment of real-time simulation VI-CarRealTime vehicle.
MapleSim, adept scientific (Letchworth, Herts), is based on Modelica physical modeling and simulation tool that uses modern methods to dramatically reduce development time and analysis model in the production of fast, high fidelity. VI-CarRealTime provides fully validated real-time vehicle simulation environment of automotive engineers that can be used to optimize vehicle design and performance monitoring system. By using the VI-CarRealTime vehicle dynamics engineers can also do great design of experiments (DOE) and multipurpose optimization research quick and easy.
"VI-class customers can now use the intuitive physical modeling environment for creating high-fidelity MapleSim vehicle models of subsystems in a fraction of the time it will take them to other tools," said Jürgen Fett, Managing Director, VI-class. "Then, they get automatically generated real-time subsystem code, that they can include in the VI-CarRealTime full vehicle model, replacing their own default subsystem. Not only does this avoid long and hand-coding errors, but allowing them to MapleSim extremely detailed models while maintaining real-time simulation speed. As a result of the simulation results closer to reality, which eventually leads to shorter development cycles, and better products. "
"The combination of MapleSim, VI-CarRealTime and connector allows for fast, precise modeling of automobile subsystems, such as powertrains and transmissions," said Paul Goossens, Vice President of applications engineering at Maplesoft. «Automotive engineers can easily make innovation work, examine their projects in new and better ways to identify problems earlier in the design cycle and the development of high quality, practical solutions to their problems. "
MapleSim connector for VI-CarRealTime is the latest in a growing collection of connector tools and products to MapleSim that include connectors for Simulink dSPACE ™, LabVIEW ™, ® systems, the C code generation and much more.
About Maplesoft
Maplesoft has over 20 years of experience developing products for technical education and research by offering a solution that is applied to every aspect of academic life. Its suite of products reflect the philosophy that given great tools, people can do big things.
Maplesoft's core technology is the world's most advanced symbolic computation engine, which is the basis for all its products, including maple ™, technical computing and documentation of the environment; MapleSim ™, high performance multi-domain modeling and simulation tool for physical systems; and Maple t.a., a Web-based system for creating and evaluating online tests and assignments.
About VI-class
VI-grade GmbH is a leading provider of best-in-class software products and services for complex applications in the field of system level simulation. VI-grade, founded in the year 2005, delivers innovative solutions to optimize the development process from concept to sign off in the transport industry, primarily automotive, aerospace, motorcycle, Motorsports and railways.
About adept scientific plc
Adept Scientific is one of the world's leading suppliers of software and hardware products for research, scientific, engineering and technical applications for desktop computers and has offices in Britain, Germany and the Nordic region. Full details and contact information for all adept scientific international offices are available at www.adeptscience.com; or call + 44 (0) 1462 480055.
Prototype Perfboard Copperless 11.5"x19.5" (300x500mm) 23000hole Phenolic
Type: Perfboard
Material: Phenolic
Size: 11.5×19.5 in - (300×500 mm)
Board Thickness: 0.062 in - (1.6 mm)
Copper Thickness: Copper Less
Hole Size: 0.039" 1mm (CNC Drilled)
Hole Pitch: 0.1 in - (2.54 mm)
Entire Hole Quantity: 23000 Holes
Weight: 300g (10.58 oz)
Price: $21.00
SchmartBoard Awarded Key Circuit Prototyping Patent
SchmartBoard announced today that patent 7,511,228 has been granted for SchmartBoard’s “EZ” technology for hand soldering Surface Mount Technology (SMT) electronic components.
In summary, the patent covers a modification of circuit board technology. A normal Printed Circuit Board (PCB) consists of two main components on the surface. The solder mask, are the colored areas, and the electronic pads, which are the metallic areas. The electronic pads are on top of the solder mask, and this is where the electronic components are placed. This system works great when circuits are mass-produced using precise robotic pick and place technology. However, when circuits need to be hand soldered for projects or prototyping, the average engineer does not have the dexterity or expertise to do it. Alternatively, it is very expensive to have a custom PCB fabricated and parts assembled on it.
SchmartBoard’s new patent calls for the solder mask to be much higher than the pads. Additionally the pads are “pre-tinned” with solder. What this modification does is allow the electronic components to easily be hand placed by virtually anyone. Because the solder is already on the pads, a user simply takes a soldering iron and melts the solder to the component leads or runs the boards through a re-flow oven. This technology makes it virtually impossible to create shorts or bridges when hand soldering SMT components.
“Our technology is utilized by three main user groups: industry, education and hobbyists,” says Neal Greenberg, SchmartBoard’s VP sales and marketing. “It has saved significant time and money for industry, allowed SMT technology to be used in education, and has made it possible for hobbyists to use current component technology. SchmartBoard’s website has videos of SMT parts being soldered and offers a free demo board with chip for users to try for themselves before purchasing. Standard SchmartBoards with “ez” technology have a suggested retail price of $9.99 and are available through SchmartBoard’s website and leading electronic distributors.”
SchmartBoardTM is committed to helping engineers, students and hobbyists develop electronic circuits faster, easier, and less expensively than previously possible. SchmartBoard’s patented Electronic Circuit Building Blocks makes this possible. SchmartBoard’s “EZ” Technology and Solder By NumbersTM program makes the soldering of surface mount components and circuit creation accessible to virtually anyone.
Amico Universal Single Side Prototyping PCB Print Circuit Board 7cm x 9cm
- Great for building a prototype of an electronic circuit. With referencing letters printed on one side for easy reference of individual holes.
Price: $ 25
Looking for a product design company in Singapore?
XentiQ Pte Ltd has been in the product design business since 1987. We have literally done hundreds of product design and development projects with MNCs, SMEs and high-tech start-ups. What has remained constant over the years is our track record for quality and creativity.
The design team has won the President’s Design Award in 2007 and the prestigious international Red Dot design award in 2006 and twice in 2004.
We inspire the ordinary.
New Product Development
This is the core of XentiQ, we have been doing it for over 20 years. The team starts with product concepts and systematically move these concepts into product realization. Services.
Product Prototyping and Regulatory Approvals
Engineering CAD drawings can be fabricated inhouse using our CNC machines to validate and fine tune the designs. Our engineers work closely with test labs to have prototypes tested for regulatory approvals.
Low Volume, Small Build
At times our clients require marketing samples or small build (less than 100 units). Unlike contract manufacturers, we are experts in selecting and sourcing cost-effective fabrication processes for low volume. Typical batch build in tens of units.
Feasibility or Concept Study
These studies help you to identify, scope problems and explore solutions. We work with researchers to extend their research work into practical solutions.
Product Sales Material and Packaging
Marketing collaterals complete the entire product design package, ready for the marketplace.
Product Design Consultancy and Training
XentiQ remains active in the product design industry and provides half-day consultancy on how to overcome product design issues. We also conduct a full day course "From Lab to Market".
Industry Acclaim
XentiQ has garnered numerous awards, including:
* International Red Dot Design Award
* Worldstar Packaging Award
* Singapore Design Award
* Good Design Award (Japan)
* President’s Design Award (Singapore)
DFRobot DFR0019 Prototyping Shield For Arduino
This prototyping shield for Arduino comes fully assembled. Lots of cool features, including: Reset button up top ICSP header Lots of GND and +5V rails DIP prototyping area makes it easy to add more chips SOIC prototyping area above USB jack for up to 14-pin SOIC chip, narrow medium or wide package. A 'mini' breadboard included Extra 6mm button
Price: $ 125
New Michigan Contract Engineering Firm Launches
Now many of those same inventions and innovations are being used in the professional services sector, where thousands of new electronics and circuit units are needed each day to make the job easier. That is why DEB Associates was created, to be the professional engineer consulting firm for businesses looking for contract engineering, electronics engineering, and electronics design and prototyping.
”I have over 20 years of management and engineering experience in the automotive industry and thought it was time to share that knowledge. With the launch of DEBAssociates.com, we hope to bring our technical engineering skills and experience to client projects,” said Dave Bruder, founder of DEB Associates.
Many clients have been surprised by the quality of personal service that they receive from Bruder and DEB Associates:
”I just wanted to let you know how happy I am with DEB’s services. The quality was excellent, couldn’t ask for more,” said Tom Nussbaum of Dearborn.
DEB Associates is also committed to the environmental sustainability initiative and LEED building certifications that are encouraged by many communities. Bruder is on the cutting edge of the sustainability initiative, “Our recent projects in renewable energy are promising, not only for our clients but the future. Being on the Internet is a must for sharing these developments!”
DEB Associates specializes in electrical engineering and units generated by the switched-mode power supply (or SMPS, or simply switcher). This is an electronic power supply that incorporates a switching regulator for the most efficient conversion of electrical power. “Like other types of power supplies, an SMPS transfers power from a source like the electrical power grid to a load,” according to SMPS.com.
This type of power supply is the most efficient and used in manufacturing of embedded systems of computer circuit boards. These circuit boards are then placed in network units and chassis for use at call centers, transportation mechanisms and other manufacturing and professional sites throughout the world. That is why any business who has a new invention should consult DEB Associates who can design the prototype and help them find a firm that manufactures the parts for them at the lowest cost.
Shelly Jenkins of Warren said, “I received all my parts today and they look phenomenal. Thanks David for all your help. You will definitely be hearing back from us in the near future.”
Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas...And Bring Them to Life!
This book is for designers, user experience pros, creative directors, developers, or anyone who wants to create rich, interactive, and compelling products. If you want to communicate innovative ideas, research, experiment, and prototype in the language of the interface, Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend is the perfect text. Learn how to sketch, iterate, and validate ideas–utilizing the power and productivity within SketchFlow.
Price: $34.99
SchmartBoard Announces New Through Hole Board With A Twist
“In July of this year, SchmartBoard asked for the input of it’s users for what they would want to see in a through hole board”, said Neal Greenberg, SchmartBoard’s VP of Sales and Marketing. “We received a number of responses, and thus have taken something that could have been a “me to” product and instead have a unique item that adds much greater value than anything that we could have designed alone. The users who helped with input will receive a free sample as a thank you. We will most certainly do this again with other product designs.”
The features on this 4” x 4” board are as follows:
• ¾ of the board our signature offset traced rows of holes
• ¼ of the board with untraced holes
• Long enough for any DIP
• Every 10th row, silk-screened to help with part placement
• Two columns of power and ground strips
• Easy ground connection to the mounting holes
• PCB is scored to break in half if chosen
The suggested retail is $15 per board or $130 for a 10 pack. More information and a detailed diagram can be found at: http://www.schmartboard.com/index.asp?page=products_th&id...
SchmartBoardTM is committed to helping engineers, students and hobbyists develop electronic circuits faster, easier, and less expensively than previously possible. SchmartBoard’s patented Electronic Circuit Building Blocks makes this possible. SchmartBoard’s “EZ” Technology and Solder By NumbersTM program makes the soldering of surface mount components and circuit creation accessible to virtually anyone.
The SchmartBoard system is the fastest and easiest electronic circuit prototyping system ever conceived. The system supports through hole and surface mount components.
Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing deals with various aspects of joining materials to form parts. Additive Manufacturing (AM) is an automated technique for direct conversion of 3D CAD data into physical objects using a variety of approaches. Manufacturers have been using these technologies in order to reduce development cycle times and get their products to the market quicker, more cost effectively, and with added value due to the incorporation of customizable features. Realizing the potential of AM applications, a large number of processes have been developed allowing the use of various materials ranging from plastics to metals for product development.
Authors Ian Gibson, David W. Rosen and Brent Stucker explain these issues, as well as: Providing a comprehensive overview of AM technologies plus descriptions of support technologies like software systems and post-processing approaches Discussing the wide variety of new and emerging applications like micro-scale AM, medical applications, direct write electronics and Direct Digital Manufacturing of end-use components Introducing systematic solutions for process selection and design for AM Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing is the perfect book for researchers, students, practicing engineers, entrepreneurs, and manufacturing industry professionals interested in additive manufacturing.
Price: $169.00
R&D Technologies to Distribute Objet Connex and Eden Families of 3D Printers
R&D Technologies, a proven reseller of 3D CAD software and related products and Objet Geometries Inc., the innovation leader in 3D printing technology, today announced that the Connex Family and Eden Family of 3D printers will now be sold in New England by R&D Technologies. The new initiative expands on the existing distribution of Objet’s Alaris30 Desktop 3D Printing System. Objet will continue to provide direct service and customer field support for both the Connex Family and Eden Family of 3D printers while R&D Technologies will deliver primary service for the Alaris30.
Frank Marangell, President of Objet US said, “The tremendous success we’ve garnered for the Alaris30 by selling this line through organizations like R&D Technologies highlights the sales horsepower they bring to the table. It became clear to Objet that teaming with our dealers for distribution of the Connex and Eden Families is a win-win-win for Objet, our dealers and our customers due to better coverage, enhanced economies of scale and scope while delivering the maximum added value to our customers.
“Our customers are always seeking our counsel on ways to improve their time to market and other intelligent ways to gain the critical competitive edge they always strive for,” explained Andy Coutu from R&D Technologies “The capabilities of the Connex go unmatched by any other technology in the market and the proven reliability and flexibility of the Eden Family of 3D Printers has set the bar high for this industry. Teaming with Objet Geometries for the Connex and Eden Families enables us to help our customers create better designs while bringing their products to market faster.”
R & D Technologies provides engineering productivity solutions that improve profitability, allow creation of better products and help decrease time-to-market. Over the past nine years, R&D Technologies has helped over 600+ companies throughout New England address and improve upon these critical engineering-driven business issues.
Objet’s Connex Family represents a breakthrough in 3D printing by, for the first time, offering product developers the ability to print parts and assemblies made of multiple materials with different mechanical and physical properties in a single build process. In addition, the systems allow users to create composite materials that have pre-set combinations of mechanical properties, a breakthrough for the industry. The Connex500™ was unveiled in November 2007; the Connex350™ in June 2009. The proven Eden Family of 3D printers allows customers to utilize the full spectrum of Objet’s diverse photopolymer materials. Eden 3D Printing Systems make it possible for designers and manufacturers to create models with a wide range of physical properties – including transparency, color and elasticity – for numerous, diverse applications.
About R&D Technologies
R&D Technologies (www.rnd-tech.com) provides complete Engineering Services to companies in New England. Their combined staff help customers with all their design and analysis needs. R&D Technologies offers CAM and rapid prototyping solutions including SolidWorks CAD software for 3D mechanical design, as well as training and support on SolidWorks, SolidCAM and MasterCAM at their training facilities located in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Additionally, R&D Technologies offers SolidCAM software for 2 through 5 axis milling, turning and wire EDM, PDM software from SolidWorks to manage files and projects, FEA support and software for measuring statics, dynamics, buckling, heat transfer, nonlinear, electromagnetics, fatigue and optimization, and 3D printing solutions with Objet Technologies rapid prototyping equipment. As a full service company, R&D Technologies also offers consulting on product design, rapid prototyping and time to market reduction, custom software development and technical project management services to its customers.
R&D Technologies is a licensed Solidworks value added reseller, providing both support and training throughout New England. They provide information and engineering solutions that help companies increase productivity, minimize errors, minimize costs and reduce Time-To-Market.
R&D Technologies believes in long-term relationships with their customers. Many of their customers have been doing business with R&D Technologies’ staff for over 20 years and over 75% of all R&D Technologies’ business comes from their customers and their customers’ referrals.
About Objet Geometries
Objet Geometries Ltd., (www.objet.com), a pioneer in photopolymer jetting, develops, manufactures and globally markets ultra-thin-layer, high-resolution 3-Dimensional printing systems and materials that utilize PolyJet™ and PolyJet Matrix™ polymer jetting technologies to print ultra-thin layers.
The market-proven Eden™ line of 3D Printing Systems and the Alaris30 3D Printer are based on Objet’s patented office-friendly PolyJet Technology. The Connex family is based on Objet’s PolyJet Matrix™ technology, which jets multiple model materials simultaneously and creates composite Digital Materials™ on the fly. All Objet systems use Objet's FullCure® materials to create accurate, clean, smooth and highly detailed 3-dimensional models.
Objet’s solutions enable manufacturers and industrial designers to reduce cost of product development cycles and dramatically shorten time-to-market of new products. Objet systems are in use by world leaders in many industries, such as education, medical / medical devices & dental, consumer electronics, automotive, toys, consumer goods, and footwear industries in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Japan.
Founded in 1998, Objet serves its growing worldwide customer base through offices in USA, Mexico, Europe, Japan, China and Hong Kong, and a global network of distribution partners. Objet owns more than 50 patents and patent pending inventions.
Amico Prototype Universal PCB Print Circuit Board 7 x 9cm
Great for building a prototype of an electronic circuit.With referencing letters printed on one side for easy reference of individual holes.
Price: $ 45
Got Invention Radio Lands A-List Guests for National Inventors Month
Got Invention Radio www.gotinvention.com, a live weekly, Web-cast that provides an information-packed hour of everything “invention,” has landed top thought leaders throughout National Inventors Month in August.
Upcoming guests include Kevin Harrington, product developer/author and panelist on ABC’s hit show Shark Tank; Martin Cooper, inventor of the cell phone; and Forbes Riley, award winning TV host, author and a 2010 inductee into the National Fitness Hall of Fame.
“Got Invention Radio gives listeners a front-row-seat to ask questions by phone or e-mail and get straight-talk answers directly from high-profile industry experts and successful inventors and entrepreneurs,” says Mike Drummond, editor of Inventors Digest, http://www.inventorsdigest.com. “We’re proud to partner with this show and all that it does for the invention community.”
Host Brian Fried, the creative force behind Got Invention Radio, launched the program late last year. The show now boasts more than 5,000 listeners a month, reaching inventors and entrepreneurs from Pakistan to Portland.
“As an inventor who has experienced many of the options and decisions that need to be made from patenting to prototyping to bringing products to market through licensing and manufacturing, I recognized that many inventors need quality, trustworthy information to help them through every level of the invention process,” says Fried. “My goal is to help as many inventors as possible.”
About Got Invention Radio
Got Invention Radio airs live every Thursday at 8 p.m.ET/5 p.m. PT. The show allows listeners to interact with some of the biggest names in the inventing industry. Previous shows also are available for streaming or download anytime through GotInvention.com, or subscribe to the podcast. Visit http://www.gotinvention.com and follow on Twitter, Facebook and linkedIn.
About Inventors Digest
Inventors Digest, now in its 25th year, is the nation’s longest-running media outlet for the inventing industry. Together with sister business units the Emmy-winning PBS television series Everyday Edisons and the Web 2.0 crowdsourcing innovation site Edison Nation, Inventors Digest fosters the spirit and practice of innovation. The print and online magazine proudly presents Got Invention Radio.
A live weekly web based radio show, for inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs with a great line up of expert guests, successful inventors and business mentors to share their experiences and resources to help bring ideas and inventions to reality.
Amico 2 Pcs Prototyping Single Side PCB Board Stripboard Green 5x7cm
- Great for building a prototype of an electronic circuit, single side copper PCB. Referencing numbers printed on four sides for easy reference of individual holes.
Price: $ 25
DiSTI Celebrates GL Studio’s Tenth Anniversary
The DiSTI Corporation announces the 10 year anniversary of its signature software product, GL Studio. First released in 2000, GL Studio was lauded as the first object-oriented human machine interface toolkit. Ten years later, GL Studio is the innovative flagship in DiSTI’s suite of powerful development tools. To celebrate a decade of GL Studio’s award-winning status, DiSTI is thanking the customers who have solidified that reputation with an outstanding promotion.
For a limited time only, current GL Studio customers can receive an additional development license at the GL Studio v1.0 release price. This price represents a savings of over 50% off the list price. The discounted license will even include support and maintenance for the first year. New customers ready to experience the increased productivity and ease of use that GL Studio offers, can also take part in this promotion by purchasing a GL Studio license at list price and adding a discounted license onto the purchase order.
GL Studio, a toolkit which enables the development of high-fidelity graphics, 3D simulations and fully interactive controls, has experienced impressive success during its 10 years. GL Studio earned multiple awards, including the “Success” distinction from the Small Business Innovative Research Program and the “Innovator” classification from Military Training Technology magazine in years 2007 through 2009.
Through the years, GL Studio has grown with technology and adapted to meet expanding market demands. In 2005, DiSTI added support for Embedded Systems with the GL Studio Safety Critical Embedded C++ (SCEC++) code generation option. In 2007, the GL Studio Java code generator was introduced, opening GL Studio content to deployment anytime, anywhere. This year, support for OpenGL ES and Apple’s iDevices was announced through the SCEC++ run-time libraries, allowing GL Studio content to be deployed on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
“The continued success of GL Studio comes from a loyal customer base that has supported our tools and new technologies with valuable suggestions and referrals,” remarked DiSTI President Joe Swinski. “This decade of award-winning status is truly a reflection of their dedication.”
This GL Studio promotional offer is only available from October 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010. Terms and conditions do apply to this limited time offer. Visit www.disti.com/promo for more information and all promotion details. To order your GL Studio license at a savings of over 50%, contact sales@disti.com today.
About DiSTI
DiSTI is a global leader in the development of Human Machine Interface software for businesses, governments and the military. The company’s flagship product, GL Studio, enables programmers and developers to build high-fidelity graphics, 3D simulations and fully interactive controls into their models, enhancing the level of realism and sophistication, while improving learning and retention.
More than 400 customers worldwide, including BAE, Boeing, Dassault, FedEx, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Raytheon and Thales, use DiSTI solutions to build maintenance trainers, create PC and Internet-based courseware and to develop components for safety-critical applications. As a full service provider, DiSTI offers a complement of customer programming and development services, and is the recognized leader in training solutions for the global simulation and training community. For more information, visit www.disti.com.
DiSTI is a global leader in the development of Human Machine Interface software for businesses, governments and the military. The company’s flagship product, GL Studio, enables programmers and developers to build high-fidelity graphics, 3D simulations and fully interactive controls into their models, enhancing the level of realism and sophistication, while improving learning and retention.
More than 400 customers worldwide, including BAE, Boeing, Dassault, FedEx, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Raytheon and Thales, use DiSTI solutions to build maintenance trainers, create PC and Internet-based courseware and to develop components for safety-critical applications. As a full service provider, DiSTI offers a complement of customer programming and development services, and is the recognized leader in training solutions for the global simulation and training community. For more information, visit www.disti.com.
Amico Rectangle Copper Prototyping PCB Circuit Board Stripboard Veroboard 70x50mm
Referencing numbers printed on four sides of the Prototype PCB Circuit Board Stripboard for easy reference of individual holes. Great for building a prototype of an electronic circuit, single side copper PCB.
Price: $ 25
ESCATEC invests in new diebonder to triple throughput
ESCATEC, the EMS innovator, has invested in a Hilbond DB 750 diebonder to increase the company’s diebonding capabilities. The new machine is very accurate and fast, enabling ESCATEC to triple its existing diebonding throughput. The high degree of accuracy also means that the following production steps (e.g. wirebonding) have been accelerated.
The Hilbond joins the existing Amadyne SAM 42 diebonder that is older and very flexible but slower. The latter is used for bigger dies and assemblies. The new, faster Hilbond is used for products with a medium to high placement rate and high automation level or for fast prototyping.
Robert Gade, the Industrial Engineer at ESCATEC who is in charge of the diebonding machines, added, “Having these two different diebonding machines not only increases throughput and accuracy but it also enables us to use the best machine for the job be it rapid prototyping or big dies. Rapid prototyping is particularly useful here at the Heerbrugg facility as this is where our Global R&D operation is based and it enables us to ensure that we get customers’ new products quickly into production.”
In keeping with ESCATEC’s philosophy of investing in the latest state of the art software and machinery, they have just added a brand new feature to the Hilbond. Wafer mapping that enables dies to be sorted by class or by light intensity into trays. This is called “bin-batch”. It can also place dies according to the quality or classes, as the product is requesting it. The quality class can be changed in an active running program, so that a change to the available material is quickly done, just in time. A wafer map can be created from a programmed wafer and custom classes can be created if needed. Partly unpicked dies on the wafer map can be exported and stored and a converter helps to process different file types.
The diebonding machines are located in ESCATEC’s MOEMS (Micro Optic Electronic Manufacturing Services) facility in Heerbrugg which is designed to meet the growing demand for miniaturised electronics. Miniaturised electronics and sub-assemblies can be manufactured at very high levels of cleanliness and technological precision under Class 5 and Class 7 cleanroom conditions. It is supported by the rest of the Group’s global operations that include the ability to ramp up to high volume manufacturing in Asia.
For further information on ESCATEC, one of Europe’s leading providers of electronics design and contract manufacturing services: http://www.escatec.com / enquiries@escatec.com.
For press information, contact: Nigel Robson, Vortex PR, Tel: +44 (0) 1481 233080, nigel@vortexpr.com.
Amico Single Side Copper Panel Prototype PCB Board 12 x 18cm
Great for building a prototype of an electronic circuit.With referencing letters printed on one side for easy reference of individual holes.
Price: $ 45
DiSTI Announces the Release of GL Studio 4.2
The DiSTI Corporation announces the latest release of its award-winning software toolkit, GL Studio. With users celebrating the product’s tenth anniversary, GL Studio 4.2 builds upon a rich history of innovation and leadership with groundbreaking features and unrivaled runtime performance. These advancements simplify user interface development, speed up project deliveries and improve interface performance. This latest release of the toolkit extends GL Studio’s leadership position by offering strikingly efficient editor improvements and dynamic rendering capabilities.
The release of GL Studio 4.2 packs significant technological advancements and incorporates several enhancements requested by the GL Studio community. The most notable update for version 4.2 is support for Python Scripting. Developers can now use Python scripts to create and modify GL Studio content from within the editor to simplify the interface development process. Additionally, the scripting capability enables the automation of repetitive tasks to reduce the overall time required to create complex interfaces.
The Photoshop Document Importer simplifies 2D panel development by automatically creating user interface elements within GL Studio from those layers and objects specified in Photoshop. The GL Studio 4.2 update provides strategic process and documentation improvements to the importer, increasing usability and broadening the solution set.
GL Studio is historically recognized for its superior real-time 3D user interface rendering engine. Building on that distinction, GL Studio’s new runtime implements several updates in graphical rendering techniques, to deliver ever increasing speed and agility.
GL Studio’s compiler compatibility is critical because the toolkit capitalizes on human readable source code. GL Studio 4.2 expands compiler support to include the 64-bit version of Visual Studio 2008 and the 32 and 64-bit version of Visual Studio 2010. In addition, Linux support receives an upgrade; Linux GCC 4.0.0 64-bit support is added and Linux GCC 4.2.0 and 4.4.0 are now supported, at both the 32 and 64-bit level.
“DiSTI is committed to consistent and noteworthy software improvements to ensure our standing as a leader in advanced user interface innovation,” said DiSTI Chief Technology Officer Darren Humphrey. “GL Studio revolutionized HMI development ten years ago and our mission has been to consistently deliver the technology improvements our customers expect.”
About DiSTI
DiSTI is a global leader in the development of Human Machine Interface software for businesses, governments and the military. The company’s flagship product, GL Studio, enables programmers and developers to build high-fidelity graphics, 3D simulations and fully interactive controls into their models, enhancing the level of realism and sophistication, while improving learning and retention.
More than 400 customers worldwide, including BAE, Boeing, Dassault, FedEx, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Raytheon and Thales, use DiSTI solutions to build maintenance trainers, create PC and Internet-based courseware and to develop components for safety-critical applications. As a full service provider, DiSTI offers a complement of customer programming and development services, and is the recognized leader in training solutions for the global simulation and training community. For more information, visit www.disti.com.
About DiSTI
DiSTI is a global leader in the development of Human Machine Interface software for businesses, governments and the military. The company’s flagship product, GL Studio, enables programmers and developers to build high-fidelity graphics, 3D simulations and fully interactive controls into their models, enhancing the level of realism and sophistication, while improving learning and retention.
More than 400 customers worldwide, including BAE, Boeing, Dassault, FedEx, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Raytheon and Thales, use DiSTI solutions to build maintenance trainers, create PC and Internet-based courseware and to develop components for safety-critical applications. As a full service provider, DiSTI offers a complement of customer programming and development services, and is the recognized leader in training solutions for the global simulation and training community. For more information, visit www.disti.com.
9830 Breadboard-Prototype Design Aid
Elenco's top quality bredblox contains 830 tie points including four independent common bus lines for easy connections to common lines. Blox have interlocking features.
Price: $7.95
Device Solutions, Ltd. To Utilize SchmartBoard for New Meridian
Devices Solutions Ltd., an embedded system design solution provider, has announced a partnership with Schmartboard, inc. which will add value for customers by allowing them to more easily add I/O and other hardware features to prototyped embedded circuits.
The new Meridian/P Micro Development board from Device Solutions is based on the Freescale i.MXS ARM920T. The product allows one to Transfer Desktop Skills to the Embedded World. The user can use C# and the Visual Studio tools to develop applications on the Meridian/P. The fast USB connection allows one to download and debug your code directly on Meridian/P.
“Device Solutions has made software prototyping end easy”, said Device Solutions CEO Martin Welford. “Partnering with SchmartBoard makes the hardware portion easy for our customers as well.”
The SchmartBoard system has two major advantages over other circuit prototyping systems. First, they are small boards or circuit blocks, which physically connect together using mechanical bridges. The second advantage is that, with SchmartBoards, hand soldering surface mount technology (SMT) components is very easy, allowing users to prototype with most current SMT package types on the market.
“SchmartBoard looks at circuit prototyping from a circuit block perspective,” says Neal Greenberg, SchmartBoard’s VP of Sales and Marketing. “Many development or reference boards from companies give engineers all the bells and whistles, a solution for every possibility. This is expensive and also unproductive. Many times an engineer spends his or her time dissecting a board down to the features really needed. We believe that the boards should have the core hardware, and engineers should then add the circuit blocks they need rather than taking away what they do not need. Device Solutions has given their customers this advantage by allowing them to physically connect to SchmartBoards to finish off their hardware needs.”
About Device Solutions Ltd.. (http://devicesolutions.net/)
Device Solutions solves the time-to-market issue for developers by enabling them to quickly learn how to write embedded code in C# using our Meridian CPU and the Microsoft® .NET Micro Framework. This enables the rapid and efficient prototyping of resource-constrained devices to be launched to market faster than ever before. Learn how at devicesolutions.net
About SchmartBoard (www.schmartboard.com)
SchmartBoardTM is committed to helping engineers, students and hobbyists develop electronic circuits faster, easier, and less expensively than previously possible. SchmartBoard’s patented Electronic Circuit Building Blocks makes this possible. SchmartBoard’s “EZ” Technology and Solder By NumbersTM program makes the soldering of surface mount components and circuit creation accessible to virtually anyone.
The SchmartBoard system is the fastest and easiest electronic circuit prototyping system ever conceived. The system supports through hole and surface mount components.
UNO/Duemilanove prototyping prototype shield+ mini breadboard for UNO/Duemilano
UNO/Duemilanove prototyping prototype shield+mini breadboard work with arduino.
Price: $ 45
Design 1st announces FY2010 Earnings - 93% Increase in Revenue
Design 1st Inc., a product development company, today announced record breaking, FY2010 financial results. In FY2010, Design 1st achieved significant revenue growth, recording 93% growth with a 3x increase in profitability since FY2007.
In 2010, revenue from clients in North America accounted for 49% of the total revenue. In addition to fulfilling a strong demand for its services in Ottawa and in Canada, the company continues to expand its customer base in other geographical markets and in a wider spectrum of industries. In FY2010 the company signed 40 different clients for a total of 79 projects over the year. This marks a 45% increase in projects signed over FY2009 and shows a significant positive trend since FY2007 when the company recorded 21 different clients and a total of 34 projects.
“We are seeing demand in Ottawa and other innovative centers to bring large numbers of new products into the marketplace,” said Kevin Bailey, Founder and President of Design 1st. “Business teams see the value of hiring an expert design team to bring their products to market quickly, efficiently and at costs 40% lower than maintaining internal design teams.”
“This says a lot about the understanding of full R&D costing by project managers faced with managing technically challenging product designs and the diversity of industry, skills and entrepreneurial passion that exists locally,” added Bailey.
Notable Ottawa clients for Design 1st include: BelAir Networks, Nortel, Mitel, Lumenara, Fidus Systems, March Networks, Nanometrics, Control Micro, Xmark, Stanley Healthcare, C-Com Satellite Systems, ProDrive Systems, Authentipath, Brytech, We-Vibe, Gesturetek, Canadian Blood Services, International Datacasting, Guardian Mobility, Ceyba, Nimcat Networks, Sustainable Energy, and GoldenEar Technologies.
About Design 1st
Design 1st was OCRI’s 2011 Solution of the Year Winner. Design 1st is a product development company with a team of highly talented Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineers who help inventors, start-ups and growing corporations bring new innovative products to market. Specialists in physical product design and mechanical engineering development, Design 1st takes clients from a napkin sketch concept to a production-ready product. Working closely with strategic marketing and development teams Design 1st manages the detailed design, prototyping, verification testing and documentation. Design 1st is based in Ottawa, Canada with satellite offices in Montreal and Vancouver. For more information, visit www.design1st.com.
The Design 1st name and the Design 1st logo are trademarks of Design 1st Inc. Other registered and unregistered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Design 1st, a senior product design and engineering team with 25 years experience, serving clients in Ottawa, Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. We balance a products technical objectives with a user's expectation to produce professional designed products
FIREWORKS CS5: RAPID PROTOTYPING (SOFTWARE - EDUCATION)
In Fireworks CS5: Rapid Prototyping, author Jim Babbage demonstrates how to create wireframes and prototypes for web sites, mobile devices, and rich internet applications. This course details the design process from start to finish, offering tutorials on creating custom wireframes, enhancing storyboards by adding graphics, creating custom swatch themes with the Kuler panel, adding interactivity to prototypes, exporting the final product, and testing mobile designs in Adobe's Device Central. Exercise files accompany the course.
Course Topics:
- Planning and creating wireframes.
- Storyboarding.
- Creating multi-page mockups.
- Adding interactive calendars and pop-up windows.
- Embedding SWF files into an HTML prototype.
- Creating AIR prototypes with rollovers, events, and pages.
- Exporting to FXG 2.0.
- Integrating with Flash Catalyst.
- Creating customized mobile designs in Device Central.
- Testing a mobile project.
Price: $ 125
SchmartBoard releases a new tip for MSP430F5172 t.i.
SchmartBoard, a company that facilitates prototyping electronic circuits, has broadened its product offering with the new Council development for Texas Instruments microcontroller user support. These boards use our "EZ" soldering technology to provide fast, easy and flawless.
The Texas Instruments MSP430 family of microcontrollers is ultra low voltage devices, showing a different set of peripherals, designed for different applications. Architecture, combined with five low-power modes are optimized to achieve the extended battery life in portable measurement applications. The device has a powerful 16-bit RISC processor, 16-bit registers and permanent generators, affecting the efficiency of the maximum code. Digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) allows you to Wake up from the low-power modes Active mode in less than 5 ?S.
MSP430F51x2 series microcontroller with two configurations were 16-bit high-resolution timers, universal serial communication interfaces (USCI_A0 and USCI_B0), 32-bit hardware multiplier, high performance 10-bit analog to digital (A/D) converter, comparator, three-on-a-chip DMA channel 5-V tolerant i/o and up to 29. MSP430F51x1 series microcontroller with two configurations were 16-bit high-resolution timers, universal serial communication interfaces (USCI_A0 and USCI_B0), 32-bit hardware multiplier, three-on-a-chip comparator, DMA channel, 5 V-tolerant i/OS and up to 29.
Typical applications for these devices include analog and digital sensor systems, led lighting, digital power, motor control, remote controls, thermostats, timers, digital, hand-held meters, etc. "
The Council was developed jointly with Texas Instruments and the University of Colorado Department of EE address educational needs. With the students in mind he was aggressively price of only $ 35.00, fully populated and ready to go.
SchmartBoard ™ is committed to helping make electronic circuit development faster, easier, and cheaper than ever before. Patented SchmartBoard EZ "in" makes hand soldering surface mount components quickly and flawlessly. Our products are used by engineers, students and lovers of simple to complex electronic circuits design work.
Gino 14.5cm x 9cm 145x90mm Single Side Prototyping PCB Circuit Board Copper
- Great for building a prototype of an electronic circuit.
- With referencing letters printed on one side for easy reference of individual holes.
Price: $ 75
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals
An encyclopaedic guide to production techniques and materials for product and industrial designers, engineers, and architects.
Today's product designers are presented with a myriad of choices when creating their work and preparing it for manufacture. They have to be knowledgeable about a vast repertoire of processes, ranging from what used to be known as traditional "crafts" to the latest technology, to enable their designs to be manufactured effectively and efficiently. Information on the internet about such processes is often unreliable, and search engines do not usefully organize material for designers.This fundamental new resource explores innovative production techniques and materials that are having an impact on the design industry worldwide. Organized into four easily referenced parts—Forming, Cutting, Joining, and Finishing—over seventy manufacturing processes are explained in depth with full technical descriptions; analyses of the typical applications, design opportunities, and considerations each process offers; and information on cost, speed, and environmental impact. The accompanying step-by-step case studies look at a product or component being manufactured at a leading international supplier.
A directory of more than fifty materials includes a detailed technical profile, images of typical applications and finishes, and an overview of each material's design characteristics. With some 1,200 color photographs and technical illustrations, specially commissioned for this book, this is the definitive reference for product designers, 3D designers, engineers, and architects who need a convenient, highly accessible, and practical reference. 1,200 color photographs and illustrations
Price: $95.00
ATS Releases fanSINK™ Fan-Ready Heat Sink Solution with maxiGRIP™ Heat Sink Clip
Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc (ATS) has released its latest innovation in thermal management, fanSINK™ a fan ready, active heat sink. The fanSINK™ features a cross cut, straight fin heat sink offering omni-directional air flow for optimum thermal performance independent of the PCB layout. A Stainless steel screw fan attachment ensures dependable long-term fan to heat sink integrity. The active heat sink is aluminum and has been pre-tested with various fans to insure functionality and high performance. Attaching the fanSINK™ to a component is accomplished with the included maxiGRIP™ heat sink clip.
Applications that would require fanSINK™ are generally those where air flow must be directed to a very hot semiconductor in order for it to operate at its fastest, rated specification. Also, if a system chassis hasn’t been optimized for thermal management, an active heat sink, such as fanSINK™, can act as a local air mover, cooling a specific chip that was untouched before. fanSINK™ can also be applied to engineering development to bring air onto prototype boards or chips during bench debug. Rather than taking a small desktop fan and focusing it at an alpha board full of probes, fanSINK™ may be clamped or taped on the target processor to provide cooling of the board during debug.
ATS - Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. - Celebrating 20th year - is a leading engineering and manufacturing Co. supplying thermal and mechanical packaging products for the electronics industry. Contact ats-hq@qats.com or visit our website at www.qats.com
FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples: Xilinx Spartan-3 Version
This book uses a "learn by doing" approach to introduce the concepts and techniques of VHDL and FPGA to designers through a series of hands-on experiments. FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples provides a collection of clear, easy-to-follow templates for quick code development; a large number of practical examples to illustrate and reinforce the concepts and design techniques; realistic projects that can be implemented and tested on a Xilinx prototyping board; and a thorough exploration of the Xilinx PicoBlaze soft-core microcontroller.
Price: $110.00
SchmartBoard Announces a Line of 6 Regulated Power Modules
SchmartBoard announced today the release of six useful single voltage regulated power SchmartModules, which are designed to offer a quick, easy and inexpensive option for users to power up their circuits.
SchmartBoards connect together and are called “Electronic Circuit Building Blocks”. The purpose of SchmartBoard’s prototyping system is for users to easily hand solder components onto SchmartBoards using our “ez” technology, which makes soldering any surface mount component easy. When possible, connecting SchmartModules, which are popular functional circuit blocks, is even quicker and easier.
“SchmartBoard is similar in approach to software development, but for electronic circuit prototyping,” says Neal Greenberg, SchmartBoards VP of sales and marketing. “In software, one may design the core code and add popular software blocks around it rather than rewriting code that already exists. These SchmartModules are the equivalent of software blocks that an engineer would source and glue to his code. Why redesign or solder a popular circuit block such as RS232 for instance? We now have power and I/O SchmartModules and will be adding many more modules over the coming months.”
The Regulated Power Modules come in 1.5, 1.8, 2.5, 3.3, 5 and 9 volts. The suggested retail price for each is $15.
SchmartBoardTM is committed to helping engineers, students and hobbyists develop electronic circuits faster, easier, and less expensively than previously possible. SchmartBoard’s patented Electronic Circuit Building Blocks makes this possible. SchmartBoard’s “EZ” Technology and Solder By NumbersTM program makes the soldering of surface mount components and circuit creation accessible to virtually anyone.
Amico DIY FR4 PCB Circuit Board Prototyping Prototype Stripboard 90x150mm
Great for building a prototype of an electronic circuit, single side copper PCB. Referencing numbers printed on four sides for easy reference of individual holes.
Price: $ 125
American Products, Inc. Launches Newly Redesigned Website
American Products, Inc. (API) is pleased to announce the launch of our newly redesigned website, http://www.americanproductsinc.com, that will go live today.
The team at Drive Internet Marketing worked extremely close with API to redesign a user friendly website which incorporates an updated look with vibrant colors and graphics, expanded content, more functionality and simpler navigation to meet the needs and requests of customers. Other new features include an online quoting system for a quick response and also a career section that lists career opportunities with API. Applicants will be able to fill out and submit an employment application online and also have the option to attach their resume. There is also a news section that will allow customers to keep up-to-date on API news and events.
About API Company:
API was established in 1983, and has gained a reputation for excellence and professionalism in the industrial electronic business. Their business was built on customer service, flexibility and the highest quality standards.
Our mission is to satisfy our customers with quality products on time with the commitment to promoting customer confidence in our ability to meet future expectations. We will attain our goals for customer satisfaction through the dedication and teamwork of our employees, said Jack Eltringham, President of American Products, Inc.
API specializes in printed circuit board design and manufacturing as well as cable and harness assembly, panel and chassis assembly. Our engineering staff is continually improving processes and standards to insure that we remain on the cutting edge of technology. API is ISO certified and RoHS and WEEE Compliant.
Through our sales, engineering and manufacturing facilities we are able to offer a totally integrated solution to your project. This turnkey approach offers a single source solution for product design from prototyping through production.
To learn more about the company and their services, call 800-486-2741 or visit us at http://www.americanproductsinc.com.
Contact:
Chris Tillotson, Sales Manager
American Products Inc.
45 Leigh Dr. York, PA 17406
800-486-2741
API specializes in printed circuit board design and manufacturing as well as cable and harness assembly, panel and chassis assembly. Our engineering staff continually improves processes and standards to remain on the cutting edge of technology.
Fireworks CS5: Rapid Prototyping
In Fireworks CS5: Rapid Prototyping, author Jim Babbage demonstrates how to create wireframes and prototypes for web sites, mobile devices, and rich internet applications. This course details the design process from start to finish, offering tutorials on creating custom wireframes, enhancing storyboards by adding graphics, creating custom swatch themes with the Kuler panel, adding interactivity to prototypes, exporting the final product, and testing mobile designs in Adobe's Device Central. Exercise files accompany the course.
Price: $49.95
Saelig is available ready to run 3D printer
Saelig company, LLC has introduced award-winning 3D printer rapid prototyping H479 Afinia is an independent unit that provides the experience of 3D prototypes "immediate availability". H479 3D printer comes fully assembled, with an easy to install software for PC and Mac and is part of the prototype up to 5 inches in every aspect, with an accuracy of. 2 mm (. 008 "). Heated build platform prevents deformation model during printing.
3D printing software (http://www.afinia.com/the-software) comes with the printer features easy-to-use interface for laying, targeting, duplication and scaling of designs, standard import stl files from SolidWorks ™ design software, etc. Using a low-cost, high quality ABS filament in a wide variety of colors, this 11 lb Portable 3D printer, you can even print offline, disconnected from the computer. The software automatically creates material support to ensure stable printing and finishing
Compact 10 "x 10" x 14 " H479 3D printer is small enough for any desktop and ready for instant use. 3D printing to find greater relevance in prototyping new concepts of and experimenting with form, fit and function of the experiments for new products. Designers have discovered how important it is to allow reviewers or managers to keep a physical object in their hands to get recognition for their ideas.
H479 3D printer is ideal for engineers, teachers and experimenters. Made in the United States, Afinia, a leader in specialty printing solutions FCC approved and locally supported H479 3D printer is very affordable for the low price of $ 1599. Comes with an easy to use software, and the Starter coil processing 1.5 pounds of ABS plastic yarns, H479 3D printer is available now from Saelig co. Inc. of Fairport, New York. For detailed specifications, free technical assistance or additional information, please contact 1-888 Saelig-7SAELIG, e-mail: info@saelig.com or visit saelig.com.
NightFire Blank Prototyping PCB w/ 162 Holes - 12 pieces
This is a 12-pack of Prototyping (perfboard) PCBs. Each PCB has 162 plated thru-holes with solder pads (Annular Rings) on both sides. Each hole is 0.038". The PCB has 4 mounting holes.
Price:
Silicon Valley Design Firm to Hold 24 Hour Design Marathon to Benefit Bay Area Foster Kids
On August 18th Rebekah Children's Services becomes the fourth nonprofit to take the ZURBwired challenge. Organizations everywhere get stuck and lose site of the value they can create for people. ZURB, a close-knit Campbell design firm, will offer Rebekah Children's Services a chance to break through organizational paralysis for just one day and teach them how to get stuff done for a lifetime. ZURB’s design techniques will provide Rebekah's Children's Services tools to visualize a strategy and goal-oriented teamwork to accomplish the unthinkable, fast. It just happens that ZURB and Rebekah’s will create and launch a new website together from scratch that day--from every word, line of code, or pixel on the screen.
Quotes from the team
"Our website is the biggest source of information about our programs and the primary means by which we acquire new donors, supporters and potential adoptive/foster parents, unfortunately it is woefully inadequate and we don't have the resources to fix it," said Community Relations Manager of Rebekah’s Children Services. "We are very fortunate and excited to be chosen by ZURB, not only because we're going to get a great new website, but because we're going to be part of the process of building it and learning skills we'll need to maintain it moving forward."
"ZURB is stoked to work with Rebekah’s Children Services this year,” said ZURB partner Jeremy Britton. “Their team has an amazing energy that is vital to pull off a crazy 24-hour design hackathon. By working in close quarters with Rebekah’s Children Services, we want their organization to reach more foster kids who can benefit from their services and more supporters to expand on and improve their quality. We want to launch a new website and brochure in 24 hours, but also to teach the design methods and goal-oriented teamwork that will carry them throughout the rest of the year!”
Accomplishments from past ZURBwired Events
The total donation of our time and effort, as well as that of our partners and volunteers exceed $30,000 each time we run this. We have helped our nonprofits participants raise over $100,000 across our first three events, something we're incredibly proud to say!
Event Details
The ZURBwired event, beginning on August 18th, 2011 at 8:00 am and ending on August 19th, 2011 at 8:00am, will be held at ZURB’s headquarters at 55 North Third Street, Suite 100a, Campbell, CA 95008.
About ZURB
ZURB (http://www.zurb.com) is a close-knit team of interaction designers and strategists that help companies design better products & services through consulting, products, education, books, training and events. Since 1998 ZURB has helped over 150+ clients including: Netflix, Facebook, Yahoo, eBay, Logitech, Reuters, McAfee, NYSE, among others. ZURBwired 2011 is ZURB’s fourth annual event of its kind, which allows the company to give back to its local community.
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Solderable Copper Pad Medium Perf Board for Prototyping (12 pack)
These perf boards have pre drilled holes every 1/10". They are perfect for electronics projects that require a small circuit board. On one side of the board there are copper rings around each hole for soldering or temporary circuit testing.
Price:
SB400 Solderable PC BreadBoard, 1 Sided PCB, matches 400 tie-point breadboards with Power Rails, 1.90 x 3.00 in (48.3 x 76.2 mm)
The SB400 Solderable PC BreadBoard enables you to transfer your circuit and wires from a plug-in breadboard without recutting wires or changing your layout. The SB400 has the same pattern and spacing as a standard 400 connection point solderless plug-in breadboard. It has a standard 5-hole strip for each IC pin, just like solderless breadboards plus power rails. However, it has the advantage that soldered joints provide a more reliable long-term connection than solderless contacts. The SB400 has four power rails like solderless breadboards, plus two bonus rails for power or signals. There are bonus two-hole pads along the centerline allowing DIL (dual in-line) headers to be used.
Price: $4.99
SchmartBoard Releases Family for SMT Connectors
These boards support SMT connectors from companies such as Hirose, Molex, Samtec and Tyco and pitches of .4mm, .5mm, 8mm, 1.0mm and 1.27mm. They also use our patented SchmartBoard|ez technology which is our solution for hand soldering surface-mount components. After some extensive R&D we learned that two skills are needed to hand-solder surface mount components. First, the ability to place the components on the solder pads and keep them in place to solder. Second is the ability to solder such small areas without creating short circuits on the chip legs. SchmartBoard|ez resolves both issues so that virtually anyone can now use surface mount components.
“Users have been asking us to support SMT connectors for some time now,” said Neal Greenberg, Schmartboard’s VP of sales and marketing. “In fact, users have been taking our SOIC boards and cutting them in half to support SMT connectors and LCD panels. With these new boards we now support the vast majority of what people have been requesting, and we hope to work closely with the connector manufacturers to fill in other areas of need.”
The suggested retail for the boards is $9.99 each or 10 packs for $80.00.
About SchmartBoard (www.schmartboard.com)
SchmartBoardTM is committed to helping engineers, students and hobbyists develop electronic circuits faster, easier, and less expensively than previously possible. SchmartBoard’s patented Electronic Circuit Building Blocks makes this possible. SchmartBoard’s “EZ” Technology and Solder By NumbersTM program makes the soldering of surface mount components and circuit creation accessible to virtually anyone.
The SchmartBoard system is the fastest and easiest electronic circuit prototyping system ever conceived. The system supports through hole and surface mount components.
Additive manufacturing just got a lot more in the LPE
United Kingdom and Ireland in long established rapid prototyping Bureau LPE announced the production capabilities of the additive after the installation of iPro8000. With Assembly capacity of 750 x 650 x 550 mm increment of iPro 8000 for existing facilities the CCA represents a significant increase in the productive capacity of CCA in the EPL.
Commenting is expanding sales and Marketing Director Campbell Evans said;
"We believe that the introduction of the iPro8000 would have significant implications for a wide range of clients through LPE industry sectors. Large or full size components are no longer required, splitting and communication with the iPro 8000, more than twice our maximum CCA to build a platform. This increase in the size of the object will not only better economies of scale for large production runs, the CCA will also provide most of the precision and durability of the plastic parts that used to require splitting and joining.
Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials
Creating highly compelling, interactive prototypes with Axure that will impress and excite decision makers
- Quickly simulate complex interactions for a wide range of applications without any programming knowledge
- Acquire timesaving methods for constructing and annotating wireframes, interactive prototypes, and UX specifications
- A hands-on guide that walks you through the iterative process of UX prototyping with Axure
In Detail
Wireframes, interactive prototypes, and UX specifications are among the fundamental deliverables of every UX project. They are also the most labor and time intensive to produce due to constant changes in business requirements. Given these circumstances, Axure is quickly taking over as the preferred tool for prototyping. However, prototyping in Axure is strikingly different from the conventional method of producing static wireframes and to rapidly develop interactive prototypes in Axure, you'll need to have a good understanding of the tool and its features.
Whether you are an individual practitioner or a member of a UX team, a consultant, or an employee, this book will teach you how to use Axure, one of the leading UX tools. You will learn to use Axure for producing top-quality deliverables and tackling the demands of rapid iterative UX projects of any complexity and size, and for any platform and device.
Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials takes a very pragmatic approach to showing you how to use Axure and produce impressive deliverables while saving labor and time. You may not be in a position to change how projects are scheduled, budgeted, and managed, but you can be more creative and productive by mastering one of the leading UX tools in the market.
After an initial introduction to Axure's user interface, terminology, and features, this book walks you through a medium-size UX project: a digital library that sells books, newspapers, and movies. Although some aspects of the prototyping process are simplified for the sake of clarity and efficiency, the demo project is an opportunity to discuss in context and in sequence topics such as addressing business and technical requirements, handling use cases and flow diagrams, low and high fidelity wireframe construction, interactivity, writing annotations, generating detailed UX specifications, and traceability.
For the most part, Axure 6 RP Prototyping Essentials can be read in sequence or used as a reference guide.
What you will learn from this book
- Learn the essential principles of prototyping
- Construct well-formed wireframes
- Create interactive prototypes in low and high fidelity
- Manage iterative design workflow
- Annotate and generate UX specifications documents
- Team work: Develop UX prototypes using Axure's collaboration features
- Use and create custom widgets and libraries for interaction and visual design patterns
- Plan and organize your prototype to support complex, multiple-phased projects
Approach
Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials is a detailed, practical primer on the leading rapid prototyping tool. Short on jargon and high on concepts, real-life scenarios and step-by-step guidance through hands-on examples, this book will show you how to integrate Axure into your UX workflow.
Who this book is written for
This book is written for UX practitioners, business analysts, product managers, and anyone else who is involved in UX projects. The book assumes that you have no or very little familiarity with Axure. It will help you if you are evaluating the tool for an upcoming project or are required to quickly get up to speed in a project you just joined. The book assumes some familiarity with the principles of the User Centred Design methodology.
Price: $49.99
SchmartBoard Announces Two New Contests
SchmartBoard, a company that makes prototyping electronic circuits easier, has announced contests to coincide with the release of two new products for the embedded electronics market.
The first contest is for the newly announced SchmartBoard 8 Bit PIC Microcontroller Development Board. This product allows designers to use any of the 116 8 Bit MicroChip PICâ Microcontrollers that are in an SOIC or SOP chip package. The board is fully populated except for the PICâ , which is hand soldered by the user using SchmartBoard’s “ez” technology, which makes hand soldering SMT(surface mount) components easy and flawless. The contestants also name a friend on the contest entry, and if the contestant wins, both he/she and the friend win.
The second contest is for the new Parallax Propellerâ SchmartModule. This is a fully populated development board that allows the user to solder the Propellerâ chip, again using SchmartBoard’s “ez solder” technology. This contest also allows the contestant to name a friend, who will also win, if the contestant wins. Winners for both contests are chosen each month. One only has to register once per contest to be eligible for the full length of the promotion. US and international users are eligible. These contests can be entered at: http://www.schmartboard.com/index.asp?page=schmartland_ev...
About SchmartBoard (www.schmartboard.com)
SchmartBoardTM is committed to helping engineers, students and hobbyists develop electronic circuits faster, easier, and less expensively than previously possible. SchmartBoard’s patented Electronic Circuit Building Blocks makes this possible. SchmartBoard’s “EZ” Technology and Solder By NumbersTM program makes the soldering of surface mount components and circuit creation accessible to virtually anyone.
The SchmartBoard system is the fastest and easiest electronic circuit prototyping system ever conceived. The system supports through hole and surface mount components.
mbed - LPC1768 Development Board
The mbed Microcontroller is an ARM processor, a comprehensive set of peripherals and a USB programming and communication interface provided in a small and practical DIP package. The mbed is a super-easy-to-use rapid prototyping tool built on industry standard technology.
The mbed Microcontroller is made for prototyping, and comes in a 40-pin 0.1" pitch DIP form-factor so it's ideal for experimenting on breadboards, stripboards and PCBs. It supports lots of interfaces including USB, SPI, I2C CAN, ethernet, and serial. And downloading programs is as simple as using a USB Flash Drive. Plug it in, drop on your program binary, and you're up and running!
The compiler is web-based, so it works on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and it allows you to write programs in C++. You'll also have access to the mbed libraries, which give you an API-driven approach to using the many functions of the microcontroller.
Price: $67.20
The combination of MapleSim and B & R Automation Studio allows you to dramatically reduce development time
MapleSim connector for B & R Automation Studio is a result of a partnership between the R and B & Maplesoft, a world leader in industrial automation, formed to combine products from both companies to save engineers time and effort for hardware-in-loop simulation and controller development. MapleSim is an advanced physical modeling and simulation tool, uses modern methods to dramatically reduce development time and analysis model in the production of fast, high precision modeling.
(B) & R Automation Studio is an integrated development environment engineering, which allows you to configure the controller, disk drive, communication and visualization of project development for all in a single environment. With this new connection between products can be quickly developed and optimized in an intuitive visual environment simulation MapleSim complicated engineering system models. MapleSim models of high performance, high fidelity are automatically converted to HTML for easy inclusion in B R & Automation Studio. The model code is completely optimized for high-speed, real-time simulation enables engineers to achieve the requisite performance of hardware, software and the in-loop testing without sacrificing accuracy.
"The Engineers can save considerable time by determining the properties of the system before building a physical prototype through a system level modeling," says Dr. Laurent Bernardin, Executive Vice President, R&D, Maplesoft. "With drag-and-drop environment physical simulation MapleSim Automation Studio, users can easily add system level modeling phases of their workflow without the need for complicated, time-consuming and error-prone mathematical language. With the model system engineers can optimize for behavior of individual items without the risk of unforeseen side effects in other parts of the system. "
"This partnership offers our customers many tangible benefits," said Kurt Zehetleitner, technical manager automation software, B p & using MapleSim MapleSim connector for and (B) & R Automation Studio, Automation Engineers can considerably reduce the time they spend on the design and analysis of their models with the potential to save literally months of work in some cases. A high-quality model is so fast that they can be used directly in hardware-in-loop simulation.
"With more accurate models in testing must be less costly physical prototypes. In addition the controller design and optimization, initiated in MapleSim can then continue in the testing equipment in the loop with B & R Automation Studio-level programmable logic controller (PLC)." Maplesoft product range is supplied and supported by adept scientific's UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe.
ABOUT B & R
(B) & R is a privately held company headquartered in Austria and offices around the world. As a world leader in industrial automation (B) & R combines the latest technology with cutting-edge engineering to provide clients in virtually every industry end-to-end solutions for machine and process automation, motion control, HMI and technology integrated security. With industrial fieldbus communication standards like POWERLINK and openSAFETY as well as powerful development environment software automation Studio B & R constantly reviewing the future of Automation.
About Maplesoft
Maplesoft has over 20 years of experience developing products for technical education and research by offering a solution that is applied to every aspect of academic life. Its suite of products reflect the philosophy that given great tools, people can do big things. Maplesoft's core technology is the world's most advanced symbolic computation engine, which is the basis for all its products, including maple ™, technical computing and documentation of the environment; MapleSim ™, high performance multi-domain modeling and simulation tool for physical systems; and Maple t.a., a Web-based system for creating and evaluating online tests and assignments.
About adept scientific plc
Adept Scientific is one of the world's leading suppliers of software and hardware products for research, scientific, engineering and technical applications for desktop computers and has offices in Britain, Germany and the Nordic region. Full details and contact information for all adept scientific international offices are available at http://www.adeptscience.co.uk; or call + 44 (0) 1462 480055.
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