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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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Red Hot PCB: UWB Radio Carrier

This UWB radio carrier enables autonomous flight of a drone using 3D localization.

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Red Hot PCB: Low-Noise Preamps for Signal Conditioning

This week's PCB are part of low-noise preamps that provide signal conditioning for test equipment.

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MacroFab Milestone – 1,000th Panel

The production of our 1,000th job is the latest in our team's recent achievements. Each job or panel can contain orders for 20 or more customers.

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Red Hot PCB: Smart Motion Control Products

This week's Red Hot PCB, out of our assembly line, is called Precedent Motion, from a company called Precedent Engineering and will be a smart version

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PCB Cutouts, Slots, Routes, and Border Files: Revisited

Did you know that MacroFab's PCB Assembly supports plated and non-plated PCB cut outs, slots, and routes? Our blog offers many visual examples.

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Red Hot PCB: Passive ICs

This week's Red Hot PCB features passive ICs, 4 15-pin D-Sub connectors and LEDs for an academic experiment that will track the movement of rats.

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Red Hot PCB: Burning Man LED’s

This week's Red Hot PCB comes from Eran and is an LED controller for Burning Man, bicycle lights or feather boas!

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Red Hot PCB: FDR Design for Window Sensors

This week's featured PCB is fresh out of our assembly line and will be installed into windows to capture information about their wear and tear.

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Red Hot PCB: Retroactive’s “64 Drive” Development Tool

This week's Red Hot PCB comes from Retroactive and is a development tool for the Nintendo 64.

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Red Hot PCB: OpenMV Anniversary Gift

Red Hot PCB: This cool MiniMe is an anniversary gift for the designer's wife and has an LED heart. She's one lucky lady!

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Red Hot PCB: Compressor Engineering’s Vent Flow Analysis Tool

This week's Red Hot PCB comes from Compressor Engineering (CECO) a Houston based company that specializes in compressor parts and repair.

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Red Hot PCB: Additive Robotics Motor Control

This week's featured PCB comes from Additive Robotics. It is an integrated interface for brushless DC (BLDC) motors.

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Red Hot PCB: Fuzz Effects Pedals from FranaFX

This week’s Red Hot PCB is part of an effects pedal from Frana Effects and will be used to function a Fuzz pedal. Rock on!

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Red Hot PCB of the Week: Bucknell University

Red Hot PCB of the Week: Bucknell University helping students understand that seemingly simple systems on the outside can be quite complex on the inside.

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Red Hot PCB: Specdrums Drumstick

Red Hot PCB: Specdrums drumstick - an electronic device that will transform colors into sound by tapping on them.

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Cool PCB Monday: RIT's Bipedal Robot

This week’s featured board comes from Matt, a BS/MS student in Electrical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester.

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Requesting Returns is Now Easier Than Ever

We simplified the return process by building in an easy way to report issues and request returns within the MacroFab platform.

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Join Us at SXSW Interactive 2017

We're attending the 4th annual Hardware House at WeWork Austin.

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Cool PCB Mondays: Macetech’s RGB Shades

MacroFab Blog - These awesome boards just came through our PCB Assembly! They are from Macetech and are a prototype for their WiFi RGB Shades.

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The Footprint Files – Electrolytic Capacitors

Marking electrolytic capacitors correctly & understanding capacitor symbols on your PCB to help avoid issues with manufacturing.

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