Electrical circuits have always been a mystery to me. Those tiny components that look like Chiclets or jewelry beads somehow make a light blink, produce music, and detect motion. So I was happy to ...

Through-hole assembly means bending leads on components and putting the leads through holes in the circuit board, then soldering them in place, and trimming the wires. That took up too much space and ...

Zeros from the third band of the resistor (the multiplier) can be added behind these numbers, eg 100 becomes 1,000 (× 10), 330 becomes 33,000 (× 100), etc. E12 resistors have a tolerance of 10 per ...

Packaging design has become central to significant advances in the power electronics sector. More than a decade ago, the on-resistance of a packaged power MOSFET was on the order of an ohm; the ...

Invented more than 15,000 years ago, knots represent one of the earliest technological breakthroughs at the dawn of human history that kick-started the subsequent rise of human civilisation. Even ...

Genius ideas usually are so simple you start to wonder after seeing them: Why did no one think about this before? This is precisely what we felt after seeing what Infinitum Electric has created: a ...

The transistor is one of the most important components in electronics. By switching or amplifying electrical signals, transistors make sure that our smartphones, computers and even coffee machines do ...