Tag Archives: Sunstone

Particle Update

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Duane

I’ve been ignoring my Geiger counter for awhile now, but I picked it back up and made some progress again. For some reason, I just wasn’t getting the 555 based HV power supply to generate a high enough voltage. In frustration, … Continue reading →

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ValueProto from Sunstone

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Duane

I think I’m done with the Geiger counter layout. Now I just need to get the thing built up to see if it works. I’m pretty sure, but you never know. I have an idea … I’ll build a prototype. … Continue reading →

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My Mistake — Naturally

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Duane

I received my PCBs for this project from Sunstone yesterday at about 10:10. I quickly dropped them into my box of parts and delivered it to the receiving pile-of-boxes in our shipping.receiving department. At 11:40 a.m. yesterday, I received an email … Continue reading →

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Short Cuts Don’t Always Make Long Delays

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Duane

The saga continues. I have my parts kit. The PCBs should be here from Sunstone tomorrow. When I placed the order on our website, I estimated that I’d have the parts and PCBs today. I knew it would be tomorrow, … Continue reading →

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Sunstone’s ‘Fab’ Design Tool

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Mike

Sunstone is again acting as much like a software company as it is a quickturn PCB fabricator. The board shop, which over the past few years has developed and honed its free CAD/DfM tool known as PCB123, today rolled out … Continue reading →

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Chowing Down

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Duane

I don’t know how common the phrase “eating your own dog food” is. I know I’ve heard it before in some of those obnoxious business seminars. Not all business seminars are obnoxious. Some are quite helpful and actually, now that … Continue reading →

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Parts Time

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Mike

Sunstone this week released v4 of its award-winning PCB123 CAD tool. The no-cost, license-free tool features parts outlines for 500,000 components, automated BoM and integrated DRC/DfM rules. But what’s most interesting is that users can automatically get availability and pricing … Continue reading →

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Newark Electronics and Eagle CAD — Interesting

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Duane

I just read that Newark purchased CadSoft, including Eagle CAD. I guess it’s probably old news to everyone but me. The press release about it that Newark posted on its website, Element 14, has a date of Aug. 13. I … Continue reading →

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