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Red Hot PCB: Cellular Data Acquisition Technology
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Red Hot PCB: Cellular Data Acquisition Technology

This week’s Red Hot PCB from our manufacturing floor features a beautiful board designed by Metiricthat was developed for SMT Research for use in…

September 22, 2017
Red Hot PCB: RF digitizer focused in mezzanine for FPGA boards
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Red Hot PCB: RF digitizer focused in mezzanine for FPGA boards

This week’s Red Hot PCB is an RF digitizer for signals from an accelerated electron beam that will be used in an instrumentation system known as…

September 15, 2017
MacroFab Update: Hurricane Harvey
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MacroFab Update: Hurricane Harvey

Updated 8/31/17 Back up and running: Thank you for your concerns over our safety as we faced Hurricane Harvey. We are happy and grateful to report…

August 29, 2017
Red Hot PCB: Open Source Autonomous Vehicles, using ESP8266
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Red Hot PCB: Open Source Autonomous Vehicles, using ESP8266

The San Francisco based startup, comma.ai, is exposing what is going on inside the vehicle you drive everyday and making self-driving cars available…

August 28, 2017
Getting Blinky going for EFM8.
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Getting Blinky going for EFM8.

In the last article about the EFM8 series of microcontrollers from Silicon Labs, we talked about designing a simple board with a single LED on it.…

August 25, 2017
The Next Electronics Manufacturing Revolution
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The Next Electronics Manufacturing Revolution

Contract electronics manufacturing is about to experience a sea change. Contract manufacturers have done business the same way for nearly thirty…

August 21, 2017
Red Hot PCB: Mapping technology for indoor environments
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Red Hot PCB: Mapping technology for indoor environments

From our assembly line, we have the Decawave designed by Innerspace. InnerSpace uses these items to automatically generate maps, and precisely locate…

August 14, 2017
Power Control for Your Product: Starting and Stopping Electrons
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Power Control for Your Product: Starting and Stopping Electrons

Power control for products used to be as simple as just cutting off power source to the device but in recent years devices have become more…

August 9, 2017
Red Hot PCB: Microcontroller Powered Electonic Neuron Simulators
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Red Hot PCB: Microcontroller Powered Electonic Neuron Simulators

Ever thought about building your own brain? This weeks Red Hot PCB features Neurobytes designed byNeurotinkers. NeuroBytes are open source electronic…

August 1, 2017
Red Hot PCB: UWB Radio Carrier
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Red Hot PCB: UWB Radio Carrier

“Localize Everything Everywhere” is the concept WideFind is executing by using advanced technology to develop accuracy and performance, including 3D…

July 24, 2017
Red Hot PCB: Low-Noise Preamps for Signal Conditioning
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Red Hot PCB: Low-Noise Preamps for Signal Conditioning

Fresh off of our assembly line, these weeks Red Hot PCB features AFAB Enterprise’s latest version of their hydrophone preamp boards which are…

June 26, 2017
MacroFab Milestone – 1,000th Panel
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MacroFab Milestone – 1,000th Panel

June 13, 2017. This week we’re celebrating an important milestone in our company’s young history. We’re are assembling our 1,000th panel! Every job…

June 14, 2017