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Red Hot PCB: Smart Motion Control Products
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Red Hot PCB: Smart Motion Control Products

This week’s Red Hot PCB, out of our assembly line, is called Precedent Motion, fromPrecedent Engineering, and will be a smart version of a 4-Amp…

June 12, 2017
PCB Cutouts, Slots, Routes, and Border Files: Revisited
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PCB Cutouts, Slots, Routes, and Border Files: Revisited

MacroFab’s PCB Assembly supports plated and non-plated PCB cutouts, slots, and routes. The last time we touched on this subject was in the article…

June 5, 2017
Red Hot PCB: Passive ICs
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Red Hot PCB: Passive ICs

This board comes from SAT Experts and is designed for one of their clients, working in academia. This board is for an experiment on rat behavior…

June 5, 2017
Red Hot PCB: Burning Man LED’s
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Red Hot PCB: Burning Man LED’s

This weeks Red Hot PCB operates a small LED controller that was built for Burning Man 2016! Tired from hand soldering Arduinos, these boards were…

May 26, 2017
Red Hot PCB: FDR Design for Window Sensors
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Red Hot PCB: FDR Design for Window Sensors

This beautiful board is a patent pending array of sensors from FDR Designs. These boards will be placed inside residential or commercial windows…

May 22, 2017
Red Hot PCB: Retroactive’s “64 Drive” Development Tool
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Red Hot PCB: Retroactive’s “64 Drive” Development Tool

This emerald beauty was manufactured and assembled in our shop for Retroactive and is for their “64drive” which is a new development tool for the…

May 15, 2017
Red Hot PCB: OpenMV Anniversary Gift
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Red Hot PCB: OpenMV Anniversary Gift

This week’s Red Hot PCB comes from OpenMV and is a anniversary gift for his wife. This MiniMe uses an STM32F042, because it is a “crystal-less” USB…

May 8, 2017
Red Hot PCB: Compressor Engineering’s Vent Flow Analysis Tool
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Red Hot PCB: Compressor Engineering’s Vent Flow Analysis Tool

This week’s Red Hot PCB comes from Compressor Engineering (CECO) a Houston based company that specializes in compressor parts and repair, pipeline…

May 1, 2017
Red Hot PCB: Additive Robotics Motor Control
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Red Hot PCB: Additive Robotics Motor Control

This week’s featured PCB comes from Additive Robotics and is an integrated interface for brushless DC (BLDC) motors. The board basically allows you…

April 17, 2017
Red Hot PCB: Fuzz Effects Pedals from FranaFX
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Red Hot PCB: Fuzz Effects Pedals from FranaFX

This week’s Red Hot PCB is part of an effects pedal from Frana Effects and will will be used to function a Fuzz audio feedback pedal to create…

April 10, 2017
Red Hot PCB of the Week: Bucknell University
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Red Hot PCB of the Week: Bucknell University

This week’s featured PCB comes from Bucknell University. Matthew Lamparter, Laboratory Director for the Department of Electrical and Computer…

April 3, 2017
Red Hot PCB: Specdrums Drumstick
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Red Hot PCB: Specdrums Drumstick

Tap into the powerful language of music, using every color in sight! This week’s Red Hot PCB is for a prototype from Specdrums, a new startup,…

March 27, 2017