This instructable will show you how to design and build a circuit using truly tiny SMT devices.
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Williamson Labs Tutor animations about electronics. Also other categories.
Electro Tech Online Forums More Forums
e4b. Electronics for beginners. Lots of Electronic Links.
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RSH Electronics UK and International Suppliers of Electronic Components.
JPR Electronics is an independent distributor of quality assured electronic components and accessories to Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Education establishments worldwide.
Easby Electronics. We are a specialist stockist of passive electronic components and distributor of passives, electromechanicals, connectors and discrete semiconductors. Easby is a franchised distributor and agent for a wide range of passive electronic components, capacitors, connectors, relays, resistors and semiconductors from manufacturers around the world.
How to Understand, Present and Invent Electronic Circuits
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
Latest electronics product news for engineers and designers from electropages.electropages.com Latest Articles
The electronic hobbyist news blogElectronics-Lab.com Blog
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Epemag Everyday Practical Electronics (EPE) Magazine Electronic Tools Dev'rs (Plenty of links) Nuts & Volts Magazine Williamson Labs Animations of Electronics |
Heathkit Education Systems. Heathkit Schematic Diagram Archive
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Ohm's Law. A must know this. Most useful. Voltage, Current, and Resistance - three of the most important electrical properties, are elegantly intertwined by way of a simple equation; V = IR, better known as Ohm's Law. Get to know this fundamental tool of electronics engineering - you'll be glad you did! |
A primer for using an oscilloscope. Thanks to Electronics-Lab:-
Using an Oscilloscope by Doctronics
The Minimalist Oscilloscope 08M Project (Mobile phone display as anOscilloscope)
Mozomsite Covers PIC Microcontroller. Stepper Motors. Semiconductors Fundamentals, etc...
TGIMBOEJ, The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk is a progressive lending library of electronic components. An internet meme in physical form halfway between P2P zip-archive sharing and a flea market. It arrives full of wonderful (and possibly useless) components, but you will surely find some treasures to keep. You will be inspired look through your own piles, such as they are, and find more mysterious components that clearly need to be donated to the box before it is passed on again.
RS Components is the UK's leading supplier of industrial products, helping thousands of you every day to achieve great things.
Allied Electronics is a small order, high service level distributor of electronic components and electromechanical products with 56 sales branches across the United States and in Canada.
Doctronics Design & Technology and Electronics Resources.
Electronics WISC online These interactive learning objects focus on concepts that cover a broad-based electromechanical program
Jameco Electronics is a distributor of electronic components. The company's broad product line includes semiconductors, passives, interconnects, electromechanical, power sources and specialty products.
Superprobe Test Probe a Measuring Probe with 17 functions using very few parts. project was designed to see how much could be done with a PIC chip and just a few parts. This device is designed around a PIC16F870, a 4 digit LED display module and very little else. From Mondo Technology an educational site of PIC Projects in various stages of development along with pictures, source files, object code files, schematics, and board layouts. More Microcontrollers, Controllers
Tech-supplies The online shop for all your PICAXE, electronic, robotic and educational technology projects.
Electronic Samples Information (You may be able to obtain some free electronic samples)
Elecronics Forum Forum for Electronic Fans Electronic Samples Links More Forums
Power without batteries. Sometime known as a cats whisker radio
Circuit Hut For people who love electronics.
The SCOPE A poorman's oscilloscope
Digital oscilloscope from FPGA project and tutorial FPGAs are programmable digital logic chips. What that means is that you can program them to do almost any digital function.
AMERICAN QRP CLUB For builders, experimenters, ham radio operators, and low power enthusiasts.
Model Railroad & Misc. Electronics including the 74194 Stepper Motor Driver
Make Primer Basic how-to electronics' features. Makezine
VirtualBreadboard is an easy to use simulation and modelling tool that can be used in place of a real breadboard for quickly performing experiments and testing out electronic and microcontroller powered 'embedded' applications.
Electronic Breadboard Templates form Rancidbacon Also PC Hardware tips. Apple and Windows.
ExpressPCB. Free PCB software is a snap to learn and use. For the first time, designing circuit boards is simple for the beginner and efficient for the professional.
Rickard Gunee Electronic Projects
Olimex PCB Software Tools, (some Computer Numerically Controlled, CNC), for Olimex for Electronic design and PCB sub-contract assembly.
How to Solder Correctly - and Why
Soldering Tutorial - Make Video Podcast
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SMT, (Surface Mount Technology) Surface mount components. |
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So you're thinking of building a super-widget and
wanted to use the latest QFN / MLF (micro lead frame) package parts. But
then you actually LOOKED at one, realized how tiny it really is (Picture
left), and decided no way can I solder that! Think again! This instructable will show you how to design and build a circuit using truly tiny SMT devices. |
Cachefly O'Reilly PCB Making (PDF format)
How to make PCBs with a laser printer
A simple way of making double-sided printed-circuit boards (PDF format)
The EAGLE Layout Editor (Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor.), An easy to use, yet powerful tool for designing printed circuit boards (PCBs).
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, and traditionally allow you to draw out a symbolic representation of a circuit using a schematic capture interface, (sometimes) simulate it with a circuit simulator, and then finally lay out the circuit on a printed circuit board (PCB). Also see Makezine for more information about this:-
The electronic hobbyist news blogElectronics-Lab.com Blog
The Hardware Book contains misc technical information about computers and other electronic devices. You'll find the pin out to most common (and uncommon) connectors available, as well as info about how to build cables. More Electronic links
H&R ENTERPRISES Inc. A wholesale electronic component distributor of integrated circuits, semiconductors, and other lesser electronic components specializing in obsolete and hard to find parts.
Sci.Electronics.Repair Frequently Asked Question(s) Repair List of resources, links and suggestions for troubleshooting and repairing most appliances.
Zach's Cool Stuff. Where people come to expand their knowledge of electronics, robotics, and technology through hands-on projects (i.e., Building Cool Stuff).
Mike's Electric Stuff High Voltage, Valves and other electrical stuff. Which is better, PIC or AVR ? Let's have a heated debate....
ECE 480 Where a Picture is Worth a Thousand & Twenty-four Words.
Electronic Lab Electronic design, schematic, projects and many more
Repair World Electronic Repair. Service & Repair Information for Electronic Technicians
PIC & Electronic Development on a Shoestring
Electronics Repair. Service manual and schematic of home and office for electronics technicians.
Silicon Chip Australia's electronics magazine, and is primarily directed to professionals, trades people and enthusiasts in the electronics, electrical, computer and related fields.
The Antique Chip Collectors Page. Perhaps vintage is a better term than antique although, in Internet years, integrated circuits have been around for more than 120 years. It is absolutely amazing the number and variety of computing devices that have been created and obsolesced in just 40 years. Integrated circuits are used for many purposes, but these pages focus primarily on vintage computing chips from the 60's-80's.
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World's first transistor Dec. 16, 1947, three physicists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., built the world's first transistor. William Shockley, John Bardeen and William Brattain had been looking for a semiconductor amplifier to take the place of the vacuum tubes that made radios and other electronics so impossibly bulky, hot and power hungry. They were so instantly certain they'd found their answer that they didn't speak a word of it to anyone for six months, until they could experiment further and apply for patents. Then on June 30, 1948, they held a press conference in New York City. They showed the world not only a big model of a transistor but also a TV and a radio with transistors in place of the tubes. Nobody was talking about anything like computers yet, but it was a first look at the future we all live in. The world's response? The New York Times ran an item at the bottom of its "News of Radio" column on page 46. |
PCB - Copper Printed Circuit Boards From Robot Room More Robots and Robotics. Computer Control. Computer Engineering.
Tutorial: Making Your Own PCB (Printed Circuit Board)
How to make Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) from Electronics Lab
Cachefly O'Reilly PCB Making (PDF format)
How to make PCBs with a laser printer
A simple way of making double-sided printed-circuit boards (PDF format)
Advanced Circuits. Quickturn manufacturer of printed circuit boards.
GKDesign specialises in developing prototypes for your robotics and electronics needs.
Alberta Printed Circuits Ltd. Manufacturer of double-sided, plated-through hole, printed circuit boards. Specialty is quick-turn, small quantity orders. They also provide an engineering pre-production run service up to 2000 square inches per order.
Java Breadboard Simulator application was designed to be a small tool which enables students to simulate circuits developed on a breadboard. Students can place chips on the breadboard and these chips should work just as the real hardware. In order to allow easy extendibility of the system, each chip is a separate class. The user can write new classes for new chips, re-compile the applet and the new chip will be included.
Java Electronics Demonstrations
Adafruit Industries All-original DIY electronics kits.
USBid is the global marketplace for Hard to Find and Obsolete Electronic Components.
MicroElectromagnetics Device Group The University of Texas at Austin
Electronics in Meccano you will discover how you can integrate electronic circuits into your Meccano models, or into many other hobbies as well!
HOW TO WIRE-WRAP Wire wrapping is a means for making connections between circuit components using 30g Kynar wire wrap wire and a special wrap tool. The tool forms the wire in a tight spiral around the 0.025 inch square wire post. The post must be square in cross-section because the corners of the square dig into the wire to form a gas-tight connection.
Jonard Industries Precision Tools for Telecom, devices and Instruments. Including tools to the Telecommunication, Electronics and Computer Industries. Hand tools, wire wrapping tools, wire strippers, pliers, desoldering pumps, fume absorbers, fiber optic tools, IC tools, wrenches, force gauges, connector tools, wire alignment tools, punchdown tools or other specialty tools.
RoSH, ( Restriction of Hazardous Substances), also known as Lead-Free. RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC restricts the use of six hazardous materials found in electrical and electronic products. All applicable products in the EU market after July 1, 2006 must pass RoHS compliance. RoHS impacts the entire electronics industry.
WEEE, (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment). WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC mandates the treatment, recovery and recycling of electric and electronic equipment (90% ends up in landfills). All applicable products in the EU market after August 13, 2006 must pass WEEE compliance and carry the "Wheelie Bin" sticker.
Handbook of hardware pinouts, cables schemes and connectors layouts
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Understanding electricity (water analogy) Beginner overview of electricity, using the water analogy... What do
you think? Electricity seems very difficult for most people to understand. You can't properly see it, you can't properly feel it and you can't taste it or smell it so what is it? It travels quite well through metals and generally poorly through non-metals. It doesn't behave quite like anything else. But this is not quite true: fluid flowing through a system of pipes can behave in many respects like electricity flowing in a circuit. The 'obvious' exception to this is that if you pierce a pipe full of water, the water comes out. Try piercing the insulation and touching the conductor: you will soon find the electricity coming out! The main difference is that water will fill any space whereas electricity will 'fill' only a conductor. Yes - the analogy is not perfect, but it is helpful and understanding will come not only from the similarities but also from the differences. 4QD-TEC: Electronics Circuits Reference Archive. 'The Electronics Club' |
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The aim of this
instructable is not to give you a complete guide on breadboard but to show the basics, and once
these basics are learned you pretty much know all you need to so i guess you could call it a complete guide but in a different sense. Anyway
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will only be using an led and some resistors .. A Breadboard is a board with which you can insert components without soldering them. This make them ideal for test circuits'. |
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A brief introduction to the technology that makes it possible for today's electronics to do so much with very little space - the IC (aka microchip)!
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Database of PSU OEMs, websites and UL numbers. This is a list of manufacturers (or "brands" if they have their own UL) their UL Certification number (if applicable) and a list of brands manufactured by each manufacturer. Please don't expect the list to be "complete.
Paul Peng [aka Penguin]'s world. Some high Voltage, laser and hologram projects.
The Fat Man and Circuit Girl. We prototype stuff and do hacks and make stuff and discuss creativity and have fun in public on a weekly webcast.
Doctronics Design & Technology and Electronic Resources. Including using an oscilloscope
Wells-Gardner offers replacement parts for both newer monitor models as well as models which are no longer manufactured. The following types of replacement parts are available for many models: Chassis and neck board kit, CRTs, Flybacks, Video Cables, Power Cords, Touch Panels and Touch Panel Controllers. For Board level replacement components such as capacitors, resistors, diodes, etc. More monitor links
| Drawdio YouTube video link | What is Drawdio?
Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you MacGuyver your everyday objects into musical instruments: paintbrushes, macaroni, trees, grandpa, even the kitchen sink... Drawdio brings to life the everyday interconnections between people and environment, encouraging you to use your sense of touch, and letting you hear otherwise invisible electrical connections by creating, remixing, and playing. |
Pinouts.ws plugs, connections pin diagrams etc....
HardWired (Pin Outs, etc.)
Hardware Book (Pin Outs, etc.)
EEVblog is an off-the-cuff video blog and Podcast of interest to anyone involved in electronics design. Electronics professionals, hobbyists, hackers, and makers will find something of interest here. Presented in Dave's unique non-scripted overly enthusiastic style
Crystal Set, powerless radio A simple radio receiver that does not require batteries.
Robots and Robotics. Computer Control. Computer Engineering
Hardware Guides, BIOS, Drivers, DLL files and Peripherals
RFID, Radio Frequency ID, Radio Frequency IDentification
Compare Bargains on Electronic Goods
Compare Bargains on Hardware and Peripherals
Operating Systems and Graphical User Interfaces. Windows Visa/XP, Linux, Apple, BeOS, etc.
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