The switch is perhaps the simplest and probably the dumbest component in all of electronics, not dumb in the sense that it is worthless or not useful, dumb in the sense that it is simple and doesn’t do anything complicated....
Finding good tools and finding some that are affordable can be a real challenge, especially in today’s market where you can go on Amazon or worse, go to Harbor Freight and get a bunch of tools of questionable quality at...
On the surface, an integrated circuit (IC) looks basically like a solitary microchip, however, ICs are anything but a simple chip, they are in fact made up of many tiny transistors “integrated” into a circuit on a single chip. ICs...
Need a last minute Father’s Day gift and you’re on a tight budget? Or maybe someone you know is graduating high school or college and you’re not sure what a useful gift might be? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!...
We live in an exciting time technologically and there are many reasons for this. One of those reasons is that we’re at the beginning stages of the 3D printing revolution, where for a relatively small investment and some tinkering, you...
We have some very exciting news here at EIO.com! We've been making a lot of changes to our Website as you may have noticed, we have made many new and exciting updates to our Website, the most important of which...
LEDs (light emitting diodes) are ridiculously commonplace now, but this wasn’t always the case. There was a point in time when LEDs were much less common and they cost around $260 each! The story of LEDs goes back to the...
Doing your own electronics projects can be a fun and rewarding and these types of projects have something in common with making professional consumer electronics. That is, both require the use of solder and flux to secure the electronic components...
Potentiometers are used in the construction of a wide range of electronics, but what are they exactly? A potentiometer is an adjustable resistor with 3 terminals and the amount of resistance is changeable via an attached knob, and this adjustment...
