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Similar Parts: Your Automated Part Discovery Engine
When you search for a complete part number on Octopart, chances are you’re only going to get one hit. Makes sense, right? You know what you’re looking for, so you go right to it. You type the part...
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Common Mistakes in PCB Design Beginners and Hobbyists Should Be Aware Of
Written by Seeed Studio Designing your first PCB for manufacture can be a daunting or exciting task. Newcomers either dive straight in or get worried sick that their creation will not come out exactly...
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The State of IoT Security with Future Electronics
Written in collaboration with Future Electronics. Internet of Things (IoT) security is a hot topic, and for good reason. With everything from denim jackets to trashcans becoming smart devices, the...
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3 More Ways to Use The Common Parts Library
Over the years, based on your feedback we’ve made several changes and improvements to the Common Parts Library (CPL) — we have released a version of CPL for makers called CPL for Prototyping,...
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How to Choose a Microcontroller: Part 2
In part one of how to choose a microcontroller, we considered many important aspects including bit size, processor type, operating voltage, package size, communication interfaces and memory. This...
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Op Amp Speed: Bandwidth or Slew Rate?
Op Amps are basic building blocks of analog circuits. They are used in several signal conditioning tasks such as voltage amplification, filtering, and mathematical operations. An important...
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Octopart Under the Hood: Suggested Categories
It’s hard for a person to confuse Relays and Microcontrollers, so why should your parts search engine? Context is an important aspect of good part search and categories play a critical role in...
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Octopart visits Maker Faire NYC 2017
If you’ve never attended a Maker Faire before the first thing you might notice is the diversity and variety of booths, activities, and attendees. Well—that and the gigantic metal, fire-breathing...
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Meet Octopart At Maker Faire NYC
Attending World Maker Faire 2017 in New York City on September 23rd and 24th? So are we! Octopart will be at the “Greatest Show and Tell on Earth” to show off some of our exciting new features like...
View ArticleUpverter Joins Altium
Octopart is thrilled to welcome Upverter, a fellow Y Combinator startup, to the Altium family. Upverter has created one of the world’s first cloud-based collaborative electronic design systems that...
View ArticleOctopart Welcomes Nick Enos and Sean Rothwell
We are pleased to welcome Nick Enos and Sean Rothwell to the Octopart team! Nick joins us in the position of data processing developer after having consulted for Octopart since 2014. Nick has become an...
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How to Select a Voltage Regulator
All electronics projects need power. Power can come from either stored energy in a battery, or directly from mains AC voltage or DC power from renewable sources such as solar energy. Power Management...
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Introducing Part Series Pages on Octopart
Octopart is proud to announce that we are introducing part series pages. A series is a group of parts branded by a manufacturer, all having similar function but different variations in technical specs....
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How To Choose A Microcontroller
Previously in this series, we’ve covered how to select components: how to select capacitors, resistors, and inductors and connectors. When choosing a microcontroller, the decision process becomes a bit...
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Behind The Scenes: Choosing Key Specs For The New Octopart UI
You may have noticed the all new Octopart UI we launched a few weeks ago. One of the major changes we made was adding new key specifications at the top of the search page. These attributes have been...
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How to Find Parts Fast With Our New Search Filters
We recently unveiled an update to our part search interface designed to help you find parts on Octopart without knowing the MPN. In this blog we discuss how these new filters work and how they can...
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Octopart Battles for the Net
We at Octopart have always believed in free and open access to electronic component data for everyone. One of the most important foundations on which we build in order to realize this dream, is the...
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Introducing a New Way to Search for Components
You’ve always been able to search for specific MPNs on Octopart, the search engine for electronic components. Today, we’re unveiling an entirely new parametric search system designed specifically to...
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How People Make Decisions on Octopart
A couple of months ago, we revealed insights into who uses Octopart based on the results of a survey we ran earlier this year. The people who use our powerful search engine for electronic components...
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Plotting Pricing Trends from Octopart Data
Before you search for specific MPNs, it’s useful to understand broad trends in electronic component pricing and availability to save time and money. At Octopart, we manage information of more than 40...
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