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What PCB house do you use?
octal started a writes: I wanted to know what PCB house do you use to make your PCB, your opinion about them and (very important) the time it takes to get your PCBs? I’m going to send first batch to...
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Bounty for a Bus Blaster v2 self-test app
Bus Blaster v2 is a pain to test at the factory. That is likely holding up the supply. A simple Windows test application would help things along. It’s a very basic app if you’re already setup to work...
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Seeed Studio open hardware manufacturing tour
A highlight of our Global Geek Tour to Shenzhen, China was a tour of the Seeed Studio offices and factory. This is where Seeed Studio makes open source hardware, all our open projects pass through...
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Seeed Studio tour: People
Here’s just a handful of the Seeed Studio people we have known for years. Many we’ve met at Maker Faires in the US, many we just met for the first time in China. Ian, Kevin, and Eric Pan. Eric is the...
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Indian PCB Association Expo 2012
Viswa wrote to us about his visit to the Indian PCB Association Expo 2012 held in Bangalore. This fall we hope to go to India to check out the electronics markets and open source scene. Preparations...
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Testing the new reduced-sized ICSP connector
This week we received a batch of PCBs and amongst them was the latest revision of our USB TFT breakoutboard. This board is the first board that features a new ICSP footprint, which occupies less space...
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What happens when a V-groove hits your copper pour
Panelizing multiple PCBs onto a single panel is a cost effective way of prototyping. V-groves are usually used to separate the different PCBs, making it easy to snap them off. The picture above...
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Tesla Motors: All our patent are belong to you
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors writes: Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the...
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What happened to Motorola
An interesting take on the formation of what todays china mfg is. (via Adafruit blog), h/t Tom Keddie
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Manufacturing in China – What you should know
A series of videos from Akiba, creator of FreakLabs, answering questions on the challenges of manufacturing a product in China filmed during AMA on SupplyFX. Via Tindie. Check out the video after the...
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