For those involved in the day-to-day process of designing electronics, the pain SnapEDA is solving is clear: engineers are frustrated spending hours creating the basic building blocks needed to innovate new products. As a result, they’re turning to SnapEDA to download these building blocks (such as CAD symbols and footprints) instantly. This allows them to focus on…

A few months ago, Octopart introduced the Common Parts Library, a major step forward for makers. The CPL curates a collection of commonly used electronic components for Internet of Things devices. The motivation for the project was to reduce the bottlenecks involved in component selection. With millions of parts available in production, honing down the…

Earlier this month, we escaped Toronto’s winter chill and headed to Las Vegas to exhibit at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show. You’re probably wondering how this little startup made its way to the world’s biggest technology conference — one that attracts over 170,000 attendees from around the world. Here’s how… The Consumer Electronics Show runs an innovation marketplace called Eureka…

Today SnapEDA is pleased to reveal the Beta of our innovative new manufacturing portal, the simplest way to get prototypes in your hands! Rather than managing the hassle of dealing with the supply chain and waiting for quotes, SnapEDA’s manufacturing portal provides an instant quote on your prototypes (including components, PCB manufacturing, and assembly services),…

SnapEDA will be giving a lecture at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus on September 23rd on the future of wearable technology, and the new design challenges that smaller form factors are introducing. Please see more info below, and reserve your spot over at Eventbrite. Whether it’s checking text messages on your smartwatch, tracking sleep…

If you’re designing new consumer electronics gadgets, such as wearable technologies, gaming devices, remote controls, smartphones, tablets, or other devices, it might be worth checking out the Third Annual InvenSense Developers Conference happening in Santa Clara on June 11th and 12th, 2014. The conference is aimed at developers and startups who wish to form new business…

  Going through several prototype iterations to test and optimize a design has become the rule rather than the exception. It makes sense — it’s often hard to foresee design challenges and dependencies that could cause issues, components are not ideal and introduce parasitics and unwanted coupling, and simulation only goes so far. But could…

Yesterday Punch Through Designs launched a new wireless Adruino-based platform called the LightBlue Cortado that incorporates bluetooth low-energy (BLE or Bluetooth 4.0). As readers of this blog may already know, this latest specification of Bluetooth is extremely low-energy, allowing devices to run from months to years on just a small coin-cell battery. The LightBlue Cortado…

We are pleased to announce that SnapEDA’s blog will be covering the Le Web event live from Paris, France between December 10 to 12, 2013. Le Web is one of the leading conferences for technology, focusing on startups and web entrepreneurs. This year the focus in on what the next ten years of high-tech will…