Compass Rose

I LOVE THIS PICTURE.  I believe it’s from a 1950’s issue of Popular Science magazine.
What exactly are the two "steering" type wheels used for?

This evening marked the last hours for my trusty 21" CRT InterGraph monitor.  The picture finally went out on this 75 lb beast of a monitor.  It’s only… um… 15 years old?  Now I’m stuck with this crappy 22" LCD monitor.  UGH!  How do people deal with these things.  What will I do with all [...]

I’ve come across two packages that seem to excel at schematic capture and PCB layout. 
KiCad - a full featured schematic capture and layout program that has extensive libraries and is entirely free and open source under the GPL license.  It runs on Windows (XP, 2000, Vista) and Linux  and there are rumors of it [...]