When you need a multimeter for testing electrical equipment around the home, it's vital to know what all those symbols around the dial mean.

Measuring tiny differences in high-voltage circuits usually requires specialized differential test probes, which are often expensive. Fortunately, it’s possible to build your own high-voltage probe ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.

Diodes Inc.’s 80-V ideal-diode controllers provide robust protection against reverse connections and voltage transients for ...

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced Tessent IJTAG Pro software, which will transform IJTAG (IEEE 1687) input/output ...

Defects like negative anode overhang and bad edge alignment don’t mean an affected battery is guaranteed to explode or catch ...

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have created an “optical sieve” capable of detecting minute nanoplastic particles. Functioning much like a test strip, this innovation is designed to provide ...

Siemens Digital Industries Software introduced Tessent AnalogTest software – an innovative solution that reduces pattern generation time for analog circuit tests from months to days. The solution ...

Occasionally a design requires capacitors that are much closer to being identical in value to one another than the usual ...

While we often get a detailed backstory of the projects we cover here at Hackaday, sometimes the genesis of a build is a bit ...

They’re inexpensive and easy to use, and they help keep you safe when doing DIY electrical work. Solution: Test. Use. Verify. First, test the tester by holding it to a known live circuit, like a ...