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Seeed Fusion OPL Enables Complete PCB Manufacture and Assembly in One Week at Low Cost

Posted on March 28, 2018 by R-B Leave a comment

What is the Seeed OPL? The Seeed Fusion Open Parts Library or OPL is a tailored catalog of over 600 carefully selected components available for use in Seeed Fusion’s PCB assembly service. From capacitors and connectors to ICs and displays, these parts are always in-stock and guaranteed to be cheaper than externally sourced parts. By using these components in Seeed’s PCBA service, you will save time and money and at great convenience. More Reliable Components from the OPL are sourced from Seeed’s long-term partners. They are tried and tested in Seeed’s own products and undergo the same strict quality control

The 2018 Hackaday Prize has launched

Posted on March 21, 2018 by R-B Leave a comment

The 2018 Hackaday Prize has been announced. This is the fifth contest of the annual Hackaday Prize series and is jointly sponsored by Digi-Key and Supplyframe. This year’s challenge to the hardware hackers across the globe is to “Build Hope” through open source hardware projects. Over the past 4 years, the Hackaday Prize contest has already given away nearly $1 million to the innovative makers who contributed towards building awesome stuffs to make this world a better place. This year has following 5 themed challenges that run in series: Hardware Design Challenge: 3/12 – 4/23 Robotics Module Challenge: 4/23 – 6/4 Power Harvesting Challenge: 6/4 –

Arduino Pong clock

Posted on March 19, 2018 by R-B Leave a comment

An Arudino powered pong clock used the classic Pong video game to tell the time, and has multiple display modes to choose from. The 2 players automatically win and lose so their scores show the hours and minutes. It is based on a clock by Nick Hall. This is the 2nd version of my clock and now displays temperature in slide mode and also has a timer in normal mode. The 1st version can be found here Pong Clock Mk1 instructable The clock has lots of different display modes to choose from: Pong Clock, Large Digits,Time written in words, e.g. “Ten Past