Looking for a desktop tool to document up your next schematic? Check out the XCircuit project which offers a free open-source desktop drawing tool that outputs your schematic in a postscript format.

The lingua franca of electronic design is the schematic. I can pick up a datasheet written in Chinese (a language I do not read or speak) and usually get a half-decent idea of what the part is all ...

As a marine electrician, I previously used colored pens to hand-draw electrical schematics for the custom, sport-fishing boats our firm builds. The drawings were then sent to an in-house architect for ...

As the world is becoming increasingly virtual and software is replacing hardware, electrical and electronics engineers are trying to ride the same bandwagon with their tool of choice, PCB (Printed ...

If you want to draw schematics today, you probably sit down at your computer. Why not? There are a ton of programs made to do the work easily, and the results look great. Back in the day, you might ...