Here’s something for the inner romantics and DIY circuit board assemblers in all of us. Yes, I’m talking to you, my friend; soldering iron in one hand, PCB board in the other, pining to tell your ...

Brisbane-based Cartesian co-founder and chief executive Ariel Briner said the day was coming when people could download the electronic circuits to build entire machines, print them, add any capacitors ...

There are a growing number of bargain-basement components for hobbyists who are using them in ever more creative ways. We wrote recently, for instance, about a home brewer who has created an ...

This two-decade old blinkenlights project (YouTube link, and also below the break) would look at home among current $1 soldering kits except for a few key differences. Firstly, it has the teardown ...

Ever wanted to move Pac-Man using pencil drawings, make music with bananas or type an email with alphabet soup? Now you can thanks to Makey Makey, a simple circuit board that turns almost any object ...

If you've built your fair share of custom PCs over the years, you've probably got more than a few circuit boards stashed away. Here's how to turn them into a cool coffee table.

Discrete electronic components such as resistors, capacitors and even larger IC's are shrinking down smaller every year, and that makes it harder for the average home maker or hobbyist to create their ...