As of late I have been trying to focus on the development of art related projects that are of interest to me. I have always had a soft spot for clocks and art related displays of time. I was recently on Ebay and found a rare set of Solar Split Flap Displays. The listing for […]
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Stainless Steel Stencil – Prototype
Introduction We are proud to announce our new Stainless Steel Stencils for protoype SMD surface mount work. We have partnered with a US based stencil manufacturer to provide a pooled/batch stencil service. By pooling small batches of orders onto our pre-purchased panels we can provide you with the highest quality stencils at a fraction of […]
Iowa Scaled Engineering How-To
A longtime customer of ours Iowa Scaled Engineering has just finished a BUILDING MRSERVO blog post. This writeup details the multi-step process they use to assemble one of their flagship products with our kapton stencils. I have partially covered their process and recommend you see their detailed writeup for their entire process. Step 1: Frame the pcb […]
JBC Auto Solder Feed Station
In an effort to share some of the new tools I have been getting in the lab I thought I would begin posting some more videos of the tools that I find helpful. I recently have had to manufacture, assemble, and test some new Beaglebone Cape Boards for use with the RGB-123 product line. Due […]
OSHW Summit 2013
Hey folks! I am headed to the OSHW 2013 conference today. I will be returning on 7 Sept 2013. Any orders placed between 04-07 Sept 2013 will ship on Monday, 09 Sept 2013. I apologize for any delays in getting you your order, but appreciate your understanding as we support the Open Source Community. If […]
RGB-123 Kickstarter goes live!
We have had an overwhelming response to our Kickstarter in these first few hours and appreciate all the support we have received from everyone. I am really looking forward to what the future holds both near term (Kickstarter) and long term!
Pixsi: Swift Nav
Hey all, in addition to selling kapton stencils I am also very interested in GPS related techonology. OHARARP LLC got its start with our line of SD GPS Dataloggers and I am always keeping an eye out for great new gps related technologies. One of our stencil customers, Swift Navigation, has recently started a Kickstarter for […]
The Amp Hour #153
This week I was featured on The Amp Hour with Chris Gammell and Dave Jones. It was a real honor to be interviewed by these guys. I was glad I could be on and share some of the great things I have learned along the way. We talked about Micro Air Vehicles, Kapton Stencils, Pick and Place […]
Custom Design Work – Pearl Biotech Blue Transilluminator
I wanted to let folks know that we do custom design work and recently completed a turnkey assembly project for the folks at blue transilluminator. Pearl Biotech is at the forefront of DIY Biological Discovery. We worked closely with Pearl Biotech to produce the custom assembly seen in the image above. This product includes a Blue Led Matrix […]
TCS3471 Color Sensor and WS2811/12 Led Output
I have previously mentioned that I have been in the process of integrating the WS2812 RGB led with built-in PWM controller into a line of lighting products. You can see one of the prototype boards that we are currently testing now. The board is arranged in an 8×8 matrix and is meant to fit into […]