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Free online DSP book
Squonk alerts us to a very interesting online resource. California Technical Publishing has posted a complete copy of The Scientist and Engineer’s Guide to Digital Signal Processing by Steven W. Smith, PhD. This 640 page volume covers all aspects of … Read more
Free Model Foundry: open source CPLD/FPGA simulation models
Here’s a site we found containing open source simulation models for system level verification of CPLD/FPGA devices. “Founded in 1995, Free Model Foundry (FMF) is dedicated to promoting standard modeling practices within the electrical engineering comunity. In particular, we support … Read more
Circuit Lab: Sketch, simulate, and share schematics
Circuit Lab is a online electronics design suite, incorporating schematic design and simulation. It’s free of charge, and allows you to share your designs online. CircuitLab is a suite of web-based electronics design tools, including the first web-based circuit simulator … Read more
Scheme-It: Digi-Key online schematic editor
Digi-Key has an online schematic editor known as Scheme-It. “Scheme-it is an online schematic and diagramming tool that allows anyone to design and share electronic circuit diagrams. The tool includes a comprehensive electronic symbol library and an integrated Digi-Key component … Read more
Testing post integration with Google+ this week
If you’re a Google+ social networking fan, we’ll be experimenting with post syndication on our Google+ page this week. As always, we don’t use social networking features malware widgets on DangerousPrototypes.com to better protect your privacy. We do syndicate posts … Read more
We get letters: More SEO and Realize Inc rapid prototyping spam
I need your help. Realize Inc. is a competitor of mine. I fired my SEO firm for spamming everyone. However, I’m now on page 2 while Realize is top of page 1. They have an unfair advantage over me because … Read more
Dangerous Prototypes 3D project models
We’ve started to build SketchUp 3D models of our projects. To automate the process we’re using the EagleUp export/import script. It builds a 3D model of the PCB and arranges models of components onto the board. Sounds simple right? It … Read more
Apps for Arduino
Apps For Arduino is a website that specializes in creating software applications that work specifically with your hardware projects. You download and install the app on your Mac or iOS device and it communicates with the Arduino via a serial … Read more
NoDaddy: Small outage while we leave GoDaddy
There may be a few moments of outages here and there. We transferred our domain registration from GoDaddy.com to Name.com. There’s a couple reasons. First, you may have heard about the kerfuffle where GoDaddy supported a particularly noxious piece of … Read more
Comments seem to be down on some posts
Our apologies, there is an an unknown error commenting on the workshop video post and some other posts (such as this one). We’ll try to get it worked out ASAP. This post is a test to see if only new … Read more
Forum login issues? Try this link to clear cookies
If you have problems logging in to the forum today, please try this link to clear your forum cookies. That should fix up any lingering issues after yesterday’s server migration. If this does or doesn’t work for you, please let … Read more
Realize INC rapid prototyping spam, why most SEO is garbage
Over the last week a rapid prototyping company in Indiana, Realize INC, showed up in spam posted in the forum from several user accounts. This is the first spam to make it through our spam hammer filter with a link … Read more
Getting started with the STM32F4-Discovery board and ChibiOS/RT
Giovanni writes to inform us about his guide regarding the STM32F4-Discovery. This article will explain how to get started with the recently released STM32F4-Discovery board using ChibiOS/RT. This board is really cheap (below $20) and is an excellent evaluation platform … Read more
Parallax KickStart tutorials
Anticipating an increase in interest in their products now carried at Radio Shack and other retailers, Parallax has posted a number of useful tutorials on their Getting Started with Parallax Wiki Google code site. Designed to bring beginners up to … Read more
New Dangerous Prototypes stickers arrive
A test printing of Dangerous Prototypes stickers just arrived. The first batch used Sven’s logo design on a standard 2×3″ vinyl sticker. There’s a lot of extra white space that could have been use for something but these were just … Read more
Twitter plugin fail and new plugin test
On Monday the usually trusty WordPress Tweeter plugin that pushes posts to Twitter stopped working. It wasn’t obvious until yesterday when there were no replies, and lots of complaints, about free PCB Tuesday. WP Tweeter hasn’t been updated in a … Read more
CadSoft releases EAGLE Version 6 for beta testing
Eagle has released beta Version 6 of their CAD software for public testing. They note: We suggest that only users who already have experience with previous versions of EAGLE participate in the beta test. If you are new to EAGLE … Read more
Dangerous Prototypes on Google+
Google+ introduced pages for organizations yesterday, you can now add +Dangerous Prototypes to your circle. You may have already added +Ian Lesnet in the past, but it looks like we can’t migrate the accounts.
Dangerous Prototypes logos
Sven is doing some awesome work designing Dangerous Prototypes grunge logos. We’re going to have a version of this made into stickers.
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