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News Release from: Schmartboard | Subject: Schmartboard
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 November 2003
Board speeds prototyping without jumpers
Schmartboard is a novel circuit prototyping tool for electronics engineers, engineering students and electronics hobbyists.
Schmartboard is a novel circuit prototyping tool for electronics engineers, engineering students and electronics hobbyists According to Neal Greenberg, Schmartboard's VP Sales and Marketing: "We have beta-tested the three target markets with great success
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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In addition, we have 90 universities anxiously awaiting the product to test it for consideration as a teaching tool, and we have 50 Silicon Valley companies testing the product for internal use".
Today, engineers spend weeks on new layouts, wait up to two weeks for a PCB, spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on a prototype, only to find out that they need a revision - then do the process over again, and perhaps over yet again.
Students and hobbyists spend weeks trying to use wire-wrap boards.
Putting wire jumpers in between every component is tedious and very hard to troubleshoot.
But to date there has been no other option.
The Schmartboard solution allows designers to put together a board in a matter of hours, and to instantly make modifications when required.
With Schmartboard there is no need to order a custom PCB or to deal with wire-wrap boards.
Schmartboards are pretraced printed circuit boards that are connectable like building blocks.
The company describes its patented product as "electronic circuit building blocks".
These blocks allow a designer to build electronic circuits on a Schmartboard block by block, and then connect the blocks together to form a functional board.
Because the boards are pretraced, the need for wire jumpers is minimised - unlike breadboards or wire-wrap boards.
The suggested retail for a combination pack of 24 assorted Schmartboards with connectors and jumpers is $49.95.
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