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It’s hard to imagine, but we’ve only been using electrical tape for just over 70 years. Prior to that, in the 1930s cotton friction tape was used. It’s not exactly...

Stepper motors are aptly named in that they move via “steps,” small increments, most commonly 400 steps and 200 steps (.9 and 1.8 degrees respectively). They create a very precise...

Epoxy resin is a chemical wonder that helps to bond one object to another, coat something for protection, create a seal and to perform many other types of repairs. One...

Today’s respirators are incredible pieces of technology that can filter out pretty much as few or as many particles as you could ever want to to keep your lungs breathing...

Switches are an integral part of pretty much every sort of electronics build, and in instances where switches aren’t used you need something else to regulate and activate your circuit....

The switch is perhaps the simplest and probably the dumbest component in all of electronics, not dumb in the sense that it is worthless or not useful, dumb in the...

Finding good tools and finding some that are affordable can be a real challenge, especially in today’s market where you can go on Amazon or worse, go to Harbor Freight...

On the surface, an integrated circuit (IC) looks basically like a solitary microchip, however, ICs are anything but a simple chip, they are in fact made up of many tiny...

Need a last minute Father’s Day gift and you’re on a tight budget? Or maybe someone you know is graduating high school or college and you’re not sure what a...

We live in an exciting time technologically and there are many reasons for this. One of those reasons is that we’re at the beginning stages of the 3D printing revolution,...

We have some very exciting news here at EIO.com! We've been making a lot of changes to our Website as you may have noticed, we have made many new and...

LEDs (light emitting diodes) are ridiculously commonplace now, but this wasn’t always the case. There was a point in time when LEDs were much less common and they cost around...