One of the first projects that most people do on an Arduino is to light up or flash an LED. It seems ultra-simple because it ...

A Charliplexed LED heart circuit is being controlled by an Arduino system and can be useful in times of Valentine’s Day. A Charliplexed LED heart circuit is being controlled by an Arduino system and ...

There was a time when building electronics and building software were two distinct activities. These days, almost any significant electronic project will use a CPU somewhere, or — at least — could.

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...

If you’ve done 3D printing, you’ve probably at least heard of Tinkercad. This popular CAD package runs in your browser and was rescued from oblivion by Autodesk a few years ago. [Chuck] recently did a ...

A glass-mounted integrated circuit prototype from 1958, designed by Nobel Prize-winning Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby, goes up for auction on June 19 in New York. Matt Dunham - AP NEW YORK — ...

September 12th marks the arrival of one of the greatest inventions of all time, and it happened 65 years ago at Dallas-based Texas Instruments. TI employee Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit ...