SchmartBoard has signed a Japanese distribution agreement with Tokyo-based Microbot Education.
SchmartBoard has signed an agreement with Tokyo-based distributor Microbot Education of Japan. SchmartBoard’s technology is a major advancement for teaching electronics and prototyping circuits that have surface mount components. ‘SchmartBoard has just begun to add international distributors’, said Neal Greenberg, SchmartBoard Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

‘We are targeting hobbyists and students as well as engineers’.

‘With Japan’s technology leadership and Microbot’s distribution capabilities, we are confident that SchmartBoard will the preferred tool used by companies for prototype development and by universities for electronics education’.

SchmartBoard’s latest product makes it possible for virtually anyone to hand solder surface mount integrated circuits, including BGAs.

Historically, only a very small percentage of skilled engineers and technicians could hand solder small components.

With SchmartBoard-ez, a ten year old can pick up a soldering iron and hand solder the smallest IC on the market.

‘Microbot Education of Japan is very excited to introduce this new technology to the people of Japan’, said Kiyoshi Sekimoto, President of Microbot Education of Japan.

‘The ability to easily hand solder surface mount components has been a need for our customers for a long time’.

‘The SchmartBoard-ez line will resolve this need and bring new customers to Microbot Education’.

Prototyping boards have long been the standard for manually verifying circuits, but as surface mount components have become smaller and smaller, these boards have not kept up with the technology and have become impractical for most applications.

Therefore, engineers are forced to spend large amounts of time and money making revisions on expensive, custom PCBs.

By making prototyping boards viable again, SchmartBoard-ez will save companies and universities a tremendous amount of time and money.