During the Pedal Builders Support Group’s next Zoom meeting, EveAnna Manley, president of Manley Laboratories Inc., shared her own cost-cutting tactics. Her Chino, California, company makes ...

These are tough times for American hackers, and rife with uncertainty. Trade wars are on, off, on again– who can keep track?

A timer-controlled doorbell device has been developed using two 555 timer ICs in monostable mode, combined with a relay ...

Here’s a clever hack. Simple, elegant, and eminently cost-effective: using an SMD capacitor to hold your flash media in place ...

In this study, we present an adaptive capacitor charging circuit for efficient piezoelectric (PE) energy harvesting (EH), which simplifies the configuration for powering wireless sensor network (WSN) ...

A comparator-based switched-capacitor circuit (CBSC) technique is presented for the design of analog and mixed-signal circuits in scaled CMOS technologies. The technique involves replacing the ...

Circuit: The “Mini-Mute” Commercial Killer Circuit: The “Mini-Mute” Commercial Killer Back in 2012, Peter de Bruijn was tired of fumbling for the remote every time a TV commercial suddenly blasted ...

Power supply design fans will appreciate the part about active power factor correction, LLC topologies, and filtering. Other highlights include replacement strategies for the infamous electrolytic ...