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Our Trip to MakeHarvard 2018

We proudly sponsored MakeHarvard 2018 - the first engineering hackathon at Harvard University. Here's a recap of the event.

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February 2018 Platform Updates

We’ve been making a lot of changes to maximize your experience in our platform. Here's what's new!

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Red Hot PCB: Illuminating Bike Light Control

This week's Red Hot PCB is a remote that controls the LEDs on a bicycle's tail light system and also the bike helmet!

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Red Hot PCB: Touch Sensors for Musical Instruments

This week's Red Hot PCB comes from our customer, Vindor Music. They are building affordable electric saxophones for anyone with a desire to learn.

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Red Hot PCB: BTE Heat Sensor Arrays

This week's Red Hot PCB features a sensory data board designed by BTE Technologies whose mission is to enhance a healthier work environment.

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Red Hot PCB: Liquid Level Monitors

This weeks Red Hot PCB features Dixon Bayco's monitor boards that measure hazardous liquids to maintain safety operations within chemical facilities."

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Red Hot PCB: Lunar Pioneering

This weeks Red Hot PCB was developed by Astrobotics for their goal to send payloads to the moon using planetary drones!

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MacroFab Now Offers 10-Day Turnaround

We are excited to launch a 10-day Prototype turnaround service. This service will benefit teams that quickly iterate on designs.

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MacroFab Launches Easier PCB Instant Quote Interface

MacroFab announces the launch of our easier PCB Assembly Instant Quote Interface. Get quotes when you want them through our platform.

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PCBA Platform Now Has Faster Turnaround and Online Updates

We are excited to launch updates to our platform, including high volume production pricing, 10-day turnaround, and a sharper, more intuitive interface.

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MacroFab Expands Production Services Into Mexico

MacroFab expands manufacturing services to Mexico, offering customers streamlined international production at globally competitive prices.

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Announcing Updates to the MacroFab PCB and Placement Interfaces

We’ve made the manufacturing approval process more seamless with updates to our PCB and Placement screens.

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Updates to MacroFab’s Bill Of Materials (BOM) Interface

We’ve added usability enhancements, and simplified the BOM screen for a more streamlined experience and greater performance.

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Red Hot PCB: Robotic Neuroscience Technology

This driver board for the iRat just came out of our assembly line. It's a tool for robotic neuroscience studies at the University of Queensland.

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Red Hot PCB: Handheld Augmented Reality

This week's Red Hot PCB explores the live view of a real world environment, augmented reality.

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Red Hot PCB: Cellular Data Acquisition Technology

This weeks Red Hot PCB features a design by Metiric that can monitor different materials used in building envelopes

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Red Hot PCB: RF digitizer focused in mezzanine for FPGA boards

This week's PCB from our assembly is an FMC250, and is a form factor for FPGA boards. It has four 16-bit channels up to 250 MS/s sampling rate.

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MacroFab Update: Hurricane Harvey

This post will be updated to notify everyone of our current status as it develops, related to Hurricane Harvey. Updated 8/31

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Red Hot PCB: Open Source Autonomous Vehicles, using ESP8266

Our floor just finished assembling these boards, which are part of an interface for open source self-driving cars.

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Getting Blinky going for EFM8.

The last article and this one should be able to get a EFM8 project up and running with the bare minimal hardware and code.

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The Next Electronics Manufacturing Revolution

Contract electronics manufacturing is experiencing a revolution driven by cloud software targeting the low and mid-volume segments of the market.

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Red Hot PCB: Mapping technology for indoor environments

These beautiful boards from our assembly line are part of a product that simplifies indoor mapping and location to ID opportunities to reduce costs.

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Power Control for Your Product: Starting and Stopping Electrons

The advance of IoT devices & light weight embedded OS environments have created a need for more intricate ways to shutdown your devices.

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Red Hot PCB: Microcontroller Powered Electonic Neuron Simulators

This week's PCB is part of a biological neural network that are designed to understand the basics of the nervous system.

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