Articles & Blogs

With Scheme-it, you can not only create clean, expressive schematics; you can also render complex math formulas, paste images, insert links, and more.

How do you decide what to do for your electronics senior project? DigiKey’s John LeDuc relates what motivates him and how it can help in your decision.

In celebrating the 70th year of the transistor, this blog from DigiKey highlights the history of transistors and offers resources for further information.

A brief discussion of transistors ranging from their history, what they are, how they work, how to choose an appropriate one, and application examples.

Promoting STEM in a robotics tournament using a VEX Robotics kit.

A discussion on what IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), Industry 4.0 (also Industrie 4.0), and M2M (Machine to Machine) communication really mean.

A nostalgic look at past processing capabilities and how the technology has evolved over the years.

The common 2N3904 NPN Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) is used for low-power amplification and switching. See example of simple switching circuit design.

Servo motors: what are they, how do they work, how to select one for an application, and how to control them with and Arduino board.