There are a few major obstacles in the way of 3-D printing's imminent mainstream success: affordability, easy-to-use hardware, and easy-to-design objects. The MakerBot Digitizer isn’t exactly cheap -- ...

Many people use iPhones to keep their work with them while on the move. It can be disastrous when the phone is damaged, and the data on it seems to be lost forever. The digitizer is the part of the ...

When Bre Pettis unveiled MakerBot's Digitizer, you couldn't wipe the smile off his face. And, upon opening our own unit, it's easy to understand why. When you lift the plastic unit, swaddled in black ...

Some source/measure unit (SMU) products support a feature called “digitizer mode.” However, from the title alone it is not obvious exactly what this feature means. This capability is related to the ...

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Slides make for great old-timey fun, but it’s awesome to have a digital backup of your old photos, too. An automatic digitizer can make quick work of your collection, and this build from [rbwood53] ...

When I was a kid I was amazed by advances in technology. I went to a friend’s house when I was in fifth grade and his father had a PC – an IBM PC, I believe – with a built-in hard drive. We loaded ...

Like other words that have both a basic definition and more specialized technical connotations, the word digitizer means different things to different people. Although fundamentally a digitizer is any ...

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It's easier than ever to print objects using 3-D printers like the MakerBot Replicator, but you need to be handy with digital modeling if you want to tell it what to print. The company's new Digitizer ...

Digitizers used for capturing both low-speed and high-speed signals need to match their inputs to the fixed input range of their ADC (analog to digital converter). They must minimize loading of the ...

Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Fold 7 has a significantly thinner and more ergonomic design. To achieve this slim profile, Samsung has removed the digitizer layer from the inner display, consequently dropping ...