How to Use the Octopart BOM Tool
A BOM (or Bill of Materials) is an essential list that includes every part needed to bring your project to life. An efficiently organized BOM is crucial to your project being a success. The Octopart...
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Ways Octopart Can Make Your BOM Great
At Octopart, we understand just how important an efficiently organized BOM is to maintain your project’s timeline. We created this comprehensive guide to help you navigate the Octopart BOM Tool so you...
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Navigating the Path to Becoming an Electrical Engineer
Electronics is one of those fields that is tough, complex, and hard to learn, and yet it fascinates like nothing else: the possibility of manipulating electrons according to our wishes is indeed...
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Who Uses Octopart?
Earlier this year, we surveyed Octopart visitors for one month to learn more about their jobs, ages, purchasing decisions, and their preferred resources so we can provide a better user experience. When...
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Embedded Systems, IoT, and More at ESC 2017
After attending DesignCon earlier this year in Santa Clara, we were really curious to see what its east-coast sibling was like. A few of our team members traveled to Boston, MA last week for Embedded...
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How Octopart Can Help You Find Parts Fast
Octopart helps you find parts fast. Whether you’re looking to discover which part will work for your project or trying to find the best price offered by distributors, Octopart offers a lot of tools...
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Have You Tried Specs View Lately?
If you haven’t used the Specs view in a while (or ever) you should give it a try! Last week we increased the depth and breadth of our spec coverage — improving the coverage on many key fields and...
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CPL Part Numbers Now in BOM Tool!
A couple of years back we launched Common Parts Library Part Numbers, and today we’re introducing CPL Part Numbers in Octopart search and the BOM tool. CPL Part Numbers are a sequence of alphanumeric...
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Celebrating Bay Area Makers at Maker Faire 2017
You might be wondering what fire-fueled steel sculptures, LED eyelash accessories, and 3D Printers have in common. The best way to curb your curiosity is to dive headfirst into “The Greatest Show and...
View ArticleElectronics Industry Veteran Dan Schoenfelder Joins Octopart
Octopart is pleased to announce that electronics industry veteran Dan Schoenfelder has joined Octopart as VP Business Development. Dan is charged with leading the Octomyze team in building strong...
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New Symbol and Footprint Images on Octopart
Octopart has taken a first step towards improving design content to our search results. This week, we rolled out an oft requested feature: images of symbols and footprints. About 200,000 of the most...
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How Datasheets Make Engineering Possible
Electronic components provide definable functions; they are the building blocks of design, and electronic design is all about putting those blocks together in the right way. However, unlike...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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