DigiKey Electronics

The coincidences are piled thick, but you can destroy them by putting your project in.

Head on over to Hackaday.io, describe your project, pull down the pull-down to enter in the contest, and you'll be in the running for a $150 DigiKey gift certificate.

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Digi-Key price.

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Yeah, so to just expand on that a little bit, we also have a wide range of detailed data drawings, solid models, HFSS and CST electrical models, as well as some talented electrical engineers to help with PCB footprint optimization for your system.

We have a wide range of products available through DigiKey, as well as the ability to create custom solutions for whatever your system requires.

Okay, very good.

Thanks to both James Merriman of SV Micro and Ben Pratt of CDI, both from Infinal.

When you talk about power, you know, power green pack, you really have to start more on the power management side of things.

So our customers typically, you know, you out there, for example, who may be listening in, you know, probably select your power components going on to, I don't know, maybe a DigiKey, Mouser, some kind of catalog distributor, Avnet, Aero, you know, we have quite a lot, right? But you go on there kind of, just searching the 10,000 or so parts that are out there, trying to find the exact one to your requirements.

And then, you know, just you'd have to design with it.

You'd have to put it on your board to prototype with it.

So just tell us a little bit of your background.

Like, how did you get into this industry and what led you here at your position at DigiKey?

Tough question after Andre.

It feels a little insignificant when we're talking about exploding out because it's a little less exciting, I believe.

Tell us a little bit about DigiGeek.

Sure, sure.

So I'm currently CEO of DigiKey for the last 10 years.

I joined the company for a couple of reasons.

I guess we announced this last week, so I'm just bringing it up again if you missed it.

What you do is you describe your project over on Hackaday.io, pull down the little pull-down box to enter it in the Retro Computer Challenge, and you're in the running for one of $350 Digikey gift certificates.

Retro computing projects, man, that's a lot of ground to cover.

If you've done anything with old computers, old computer software, physical old computers, emulated old computers, you're

Or the more important piece is even if you're going directly to the, um, downstream suppliers that are de- delivering the components to you.

So it might be distributing companies like Arrow and Avnet, DigiKey, but also directly the manufacturers of components, Texas Instruments, uh, you name it, and then also the PCB suppliers potentially, so the board suppliers.

And here you can run all your procurement efforts, so the, the sourcing, the negotiations, the awarding.

Um, you can do that all to lock in your vendors who you wanna work with.