Sometimes the most useful hacks are also the simplest ones. A case in point is the LED and resistor assembly that [Skippy] recently posted on his blog. The idea is to solder up some pre-made ...

Oh, there was a time when you could prototype just about everything on a breadboard. The CPU in your computer came in a DIP package, and there were no BGA packages. to be found anywhere. In the forty ...

This is far more complex PC DIY than we are accustomed to.

With solders becoming problematic in the latest ICs, the inventor Anthony Paul Bellezza has devised two basic processes to make interconnects for integrated circuits and other non-circuit connections ...

Back in the late 1960's, I experimented with DTL. That's not a misprint. DTL stands for diode-transistor logic and it was popular in “930-series” logic devices. I used wire-wrap or point-to-point ...

Tyco Electronics has launched the Solderless LED Socket, Type CM, for easy integration of the new Cree XLamp MP-L multichip LED into light fixtures. The socket offers a simple termination metod for ...

Mill-Max recently introduced a new terminal pin suitable for use in a variety of board-to-board and wire-to-board applications. It features a compliant press-fit tail, slotted head and an additional ...

Guitarists may be interested in a creation by Santellan Sounds who have created a new type of wiring kit designed specifically for guitars that requires no soldiering ...

Kyocera AVX has introduced a series of solderless wire-to-board removable edge connectors. Called 9169-000, they combine insulation displacement contacts for the wire with beryllium copper compression ...

Solderless breadboards are handy little boards that allows you to insert electronic components as well as adding wires to connect those components. It is reusable and does not require soldering, which ...