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This series installment will address the lab equipment that’s pretty critical to modern, but not specialized, electronics and testing it. I will first digress slightly to provide an update on the circuit boards designed and discussed in Part 1 of...

To build modern circuit prototypes, one often needs to use surface-mount components. These components are less expensive, smaller, generally have better performance characteristics, and can be wired much closer together electrically (reducing uni...

A chess grandmaster, who also happens to be an electronics hobbyist, decides to design his own chess clock. The LEDs, normally open pushbutton switches, and microcontrollers are all in place, driven by a pair of 1.5-V AA batteries. However, the...

In low-voltage and high-current applications, it is common to use a measuring instrument capable of four-wire sensing to help minimize the effects of resistance between connections (such as wire resistance, alligator-to-pin resistance, alligator...

Education has always been an interesting subject for me.  When I entered college, my goal was to be a high-school teacher.  Later, I decided teaching college might be more to my liking, but that didn’t pan out the way I had intended.  I did d...