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 ...

Microaware’s Sandwizz, a schematic-configurable breadboard, hit 120% of its funding goal on Kickstarter on July 19, 2024. The KiCad freeware schematic capture tool is used to configure an active ...

MIT researchers have invented a way to integrate "breadboards" -- flat platforms widely used for electronics prototyping -- directly onto physical products. The aim is to provide a faster, easier way ...

Hardware hacking often seems like black magic to the uninitiated, which is why 123D Circuits is so cool: it allows you to learn electronics using a virtual Arduino board and breadboard without blowing ...

YOU can find yourself drowning in wires as your circuits get more elaborate. To add components without making an octopus, you need a breadboard. Breadboards are so called because early makers ...

Over the years, readers have often commented that microcontrollers (or more specifically, the Arduino) are overkill for many of the projects they get used in. The admonition that the creator “Should ...

The first two parts of this blog series introduced the challenge of enabling Power Distribution Networks (PDN) to maintain a well regulated supply for sensitive components in a circuit, in the face of ...