It’s tough cutting into a new vehicle. For those that own something made in the 21st century, we can understand getting squeamish when you have to start cutting holes in something like a pristine ...

Ars is a place on the Internet where people have opinions (I know, I repeat myself). For some reason I was wondering why decora switches were invented and while looking at that I found many people who ...

We all have too much stock of one component or another. Maybe you have more audio pots than you know what to do with, or maybe it’s zener diodes. For [technologyguy], that thing is a pile of toggle ...

I picked up some rocker switches for controlling some lights and a fan i bought. now, the cathode light already has the correct connector to hook into a rocker switch, but the fan obviously doesn't.

A device that opens and closes an electric circuit. It uses a lever that is moved up and down; a light switch on the wall being a common example. Early computers, especially mainframes, often had many ...

I designed this relay circuit to function as a DPDT toggle which is controlled by a momentary switch. I strive to keep my circuits simple with little or no integration (555’s, transistors, etc). The ...