Whether you are a professional electronics engineer, a student or a hobbyist it can be frustrating looking up component specifications for use in your designs, often leading to valuable time spent scouring search engines or Excel files for further information and calculations. It can also be hard to keep track of which web sources were used in a project, especially when web links go missing or are no longer available.
That’s why RS Components teamed up with one of the top app developers in electronics, Marcus Roskosch, to bring you a collection of the most important tools and resources at your fingertips, for free!
Today the latest version of RS Toolbox (v3.2), the ultimate app for on-the-go engineers has been released and is available to download for iOS devices, supporting you from concept to creation in a choice of 16 different languages.
With numerous updates since the app launched in 2013 it now features over 20 calculation tools, 18 comparison tables, thousands of 3D models, plus technical information and specifications for more than 500,000 products.
For example, included in the functions are RLC filter calculators, a 555 timer configurator, calculators for a variety of voltage regulators and op-amps, and essential tools such as numbering systems converters, Ohm’s Law calculator and lookup tables for battery types and sizes, cable colour codings, package sizes, toroid specifications and much more.
You can also get live pricing and stock information and even order your required products with the click of a button from RS Components using the app.
We also understand that it can be extremely difficult to turn your brain off, and some of the best ideas and light-bulb moments often happen when you are least expecting them, at any time of day or night.
Waiting until you’re next sitting at a computer to capture those ideas is a little like waiting until tomorrow to write down that wacky dream that you just woke up from. You’re likely to forget the details. This is why there is also an integrated projects section in RS Toolbox which empowers you to capture any ideas quickly in one location, recording those moments of sudden inspiration. These can even be grouped into a user-definable project that can include pictures, notes, links, components and documents.
We can even help to spark that inspiration and innovation by providing a latest news feed in to the app from our DesignSpark community, with blogs and resources from fellow engineers and manufacturers on a range of topics across both electronics and automation.
The latest addition to RS Toolbox tool is a 3D model viewer, which enables you to visualize our wide range of components wherever you are.
With electronics design engineers continually under pressure to save time, we are proud to provide this valuable app for free to assist you in making the design process faster, easier and more affordable and to accompany our DesignSpark suite of high performance free CAD design software.
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