Flexible printed circuits are useful when the size and shape of your invention is integral to its overall design. You've encountered them before − in mobile phones, cameras, and other increasingly ...

In the last installment of Circuit VR, we walked around a simplified buck converter. The main simplification was using a constant PWM signal. The result is that the output voltage is a fixed fraction ...

Discover how to build a simple wireless power transfer system at home using readily available components like enameled copper wire, an LED, a 2N2222A transistor, and a 9V battery. This step-by-step ...

Link to Vojtě ch Janásek's article, “Low-distortion oscillator tests measurement circuits.” Today’s 20-bit to 24-bit ADCs need low-distortion signals for testing how well the ADCs digitize analog ...

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. But Belgium startup ...

We started out with an old modem and ended up with a useful circuit to convert phone audio to regular line audio. This little hack is useful for those of us wanting to record Voip telephone calls for ...

How do I learn circuit building and electronics on my Mac? If you want to learn about basic electronic components and how to build simple circuits, using your Mac as a learning resource, then you’ve ...

Chibitronics, the team behind Circuit Stickers, wants us to tell stories using electronics. "I hope that after making something with circuit stickers, people will feel like circuits can be just ...