It’s hardly a secret that getting into a serious electronics habit can be detrimental to your bank account. A professional grade lab is simply unobtainable for many a tinkerer, and even mid-range ...

What is the most in-demand element in each piece of consumer technology we use every day? Printed circuit boards, or PCBs. Today, as world demand continues to grow, the global market for PCBs reached ...

I just made a major improvement in my lab bench by removing the instrument shelf. When I was a Silicon Valley consultant, I had a complete lab with a high-speed bench, fab area, and temperature ...

A new tool is changing the way electronics is taught in the classroom at Northwestern — and its creators are offering it to the public through a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Developed at ...

Consumer electronics that we use daily – smartphones, computers, televisions, home appliances and medical devices, as well as electronics in cars – all require printed circuit boards, or PCBs, to ...

The Sheppard Electronics Lab in the Idea Forge is your go-to place for all things electronics, from basic electronics to electrical systems, and circuitry design to PCB manufacture. With soldering ...

Jim Bales, PhD ’91, is a firm believer that electronics can be fun. So while most introductory electronics courses focus on analysis, Bales, the associate director of the Edgerton Center, designed the ...