Upverter 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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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