[Rajendra] got tired of building the same basic circuits time and again on the breadboard. He decided to build some simple, modular circuits on protoboard and make them easy to interface with the ...

You think of breadboards as being a flexible way to build things — one can easily add components and wires and also rip them up. But MIT researchers want to introduce an actual flexible breadboard ...

When I reviewed the Rabbit Semiconductor RCM4300 Dev Kit, I praised the open breadboard area. Although this area includes pads for some SMT ICs and components, each component lead can accommodate only ...

PCB design is easy, right? To a certain extent that’s fair to say; with a growing number of schematic design and PCB layout packages available — normally integrated, increasingly free — almost anyone ...

Two lads from Ghent University in Belgium, Karel Bruneel and Benjamin Schrauwen, got tired of the traditional tools used to build electronics manufacturing. Rather than rage silently at their ...

SchmartBoard has announced that patent 7,511,228 has been granted for the company’s “EZ” technology for hand-soldering surface-mount technology (SMT) electronic components (see the figure). This ...

There is a disease destroying our young people. It is silent, malignant, and fatal. It is called Minecraft and something must be done. If you have children of a certain age chances are they have made ...