The Factory | Battery Powered Projects Made Easy

Perfect protoboards now available at http://mkrvrs.io/core

Battery powered projects are hard. Power management seems like an endless rabbit hole of optimisations, esoteric datasheets and mind bending measurements. That's why power-timers are awesome. This week in #TheFactory we reveal the name of our new line of hardware, and show off our Power Timer prototype which takes the hard work out of power management for battery powered projects. We also take a look at a new SD card module with some neat DFM hacks, and talk about improvements we're making to a less-than-perfect protoboard.

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• Adafruit https://core-electronics.com.au/brands/adafruit-australia
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• DFRobot https://core-electronics.com.au/brands/dfrobot-australia

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