Common Parts Library Update: v0.6 is here!
Hey everybody, this is Sanket and I am currently a graduate student at Columbia University. I recently joined Octopart as a summer intern and I will be working on the Common Parts Library. I am...
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International Currencies in BOM Tool
We’ve just enabled support for international currencies in the BOM Tool. In the past, we only displayed offers from distributors with pricing in U.S. dollars. This is just fine for our American...
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Worthington Assembly Reveals What It Takes To Buy Parts
This is a guest post by Chris Denney, CTO of Worthington Assembly. Octopart makes things so easy. Using Octopart’s excellent BOM Tool, you know exactly what your BOM is going to cost you, and if you...
View ArticleMaker Movement Presentation
An overview of the rise of the maker movement, by Sam Wurzel, CEO and co-founder of Octopart, the vertical search engine for electronic components and industrial products.
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API Spotlight: Omnify Empower
From our vantage point at Octopart, it’s been great to see growing interest from our user base in product lifecycle management (PLM) in parallel with a growing number of collaborations with cloud PLM...
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Introducing CPL Part Numbers
During the development of the Common Parts Library (CPL), we reached a point where we wanted to uniquely identify a generic CPL part such as a 10kΩ resistor or a 12MHz crystal oscillator. This entailed...
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Announcing “Bought Together”
We’re pleased to announce that “Bought Together” links are now appearing on select parts across Octopart! While searching for parts, keep an eye open for this new functionality. Click on the “Bought...
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How are we doing? Take our survey!
Here at Octopart, we’re serious about developing the best online tools and solutions for use in electronic design, mechanical design, sourcing, and manufacturing, so we’re always trying to improve. To...
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API Spotlight: Open Source Part Lookup
A few months ago, Octopart user Reza Naima reached out to us to see if it was OK to write a small open source C# application with our API. (Of course it was!) Here’s what came out of it — a part...
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Octopart is Joining Altium
I’m very happy to share big Octopart news today: We’ve signed a definitive agreement to join Altium, a leading provider of design software for the electronics industry. Octopart will become a wholly...
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New Collaboration Options for the BOM Tool
It’s now very easy to share your BOM with colleagues, or keep a BOM private for your eyes only. We’ve added two new components to the BOM Tool. In the upper-right corner, you’ll see a new “omniscient...
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Introducing Common Parts Library for Prototyping
We are excited to announce the new Common Parts Library for Prototyping. It is a list of commonly used components, tools and equipment for prototyping new connected devices. The Common Parts Library...
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Meet Octopart at Maker Faire!
We love making, and makers, and Maker Faire. So much, that we’ve teamed up with CircuitMaker to sponsor this great event, but not just in one location! We look forward to seeing you there – in New...
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Octopart is in CircuitMaker!
We’re excited to announce that Altium’s free PCB design tool, CircuitMaker, has just released a new version (Beta 5) which integrates Octopart’s database for component selection and supply chain...
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CircuitMaker on Mac OS X
Last week, we announced that Octopart is now powering the database behind CircuitMaker, the free PCB design tool from Altium. We’ve gotten a lot of questions about running CircuitMaker on Mac OS X,...
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Octopart at Open Hardware Summit
A few weeks ago, Sam and Sanket had the opportunity to speak about the new Common Parts Library for Prototyping at the Open Hardware Summit in Philadelphia! We had a blast seeing some great talks and...
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BOM Tool Custom Offers
The BOM Tool has allowed designers to add Custom Rows to BOMs for parts that are created or sourced internally. However, since Octopart does not (yet!) work with every distributor in the world, BOM...
View ArticleOctopart on Elasticsearch: all new, basically the same
Ever worked hard on a project but when you show it off everyone says, “wait, what’s different?” In this post, we’re going to attempt to show off one of those projects. Four weeks ago, we replaced our...
View ArticleOctopart on Elasticsearch: all new, basically the same
Ever worked hard on a project but when you show it off everyone says, “wait, what’s different?” In this post, we’re going to attempt to show off one of those projects. Four weeks ago, we replaced our...
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From Desktop 3D Printing to Desktop Electronics Manufacturing
Desktop 3D printing has matured from its humble beginnings of not much more than a glue gun on a rudimentary X-Y-Z translation stage to a wide range of beautifully engineered machines, driven by...
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