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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_connector A banana connector is a single-wire (one conductor) electrical connector used for joining wires to equipment. The term 4 mm connector is also used, especially in Europe,because the pin’s diameter is nominally 4 millimetres (0.16 in).The pin has one or more lengthwise springs that bulge outwards slightly, giving the appearance of a banana. The original plug consists of a cylindrical metal pin about 20 millimetres (0.79 in) long.However other →

https://opensource.com/life/16/10/how-to-create-workspace-for-your-brain?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY No two people are exactly alike, therefore no two workspaces are exactly alike. →

http://interestingengineering.com/googles-new-program-autodraw-help-drawings-suck-less/ AutoDraw uses machine learning to match your doodles with professional works in order to clean up a sketch. Simply pull up AutoDraw on your phone, tablet, or desktop computer and start sketching.  As you draw, image suggestions will appear above the drawing pad.  “We hope AutoDraw will help make drawing and creating a little →

https://blog.hackster.io/hackster-apps-end-to-end-hardware-creation-in-your-browser-66259fa2d4a8#.yaqioxg6e A collection of software tools that enable our community to better design, prototype, and produce both Maker and enterprise-grade projects alike. →

The Visual Fault Finder is a visible laser light source used to check continuity, locate breaks, poor mechanical splices and damaged connectors in fiber optic cabling. It can be used to verify continuity, test and find breaks in fibre links, locate pinched fiber strands in termination cabinets, or anywhere fiber optic cables are terminated and →

A soldering iron is a hand tool used in soldering. It supplies heat to melt solder so that it can flow into the joint between two workpieces. For well over 4000 years mankind has known how to join metals together by soldering. In the 1800s and early 1900s soldering irons were still heated by flame. →

A function generator is usually a piece of electronic test equipment or software used to generate different types of electrical waveforms over a wide range of frequencies. Some of the most common waveforms produced by the function generator are the sine, square, triangular and sawtooth shapes. Function generators are used in the development, test and repair →

EasyEDA is an integrated tool for schematic capture, circuit simulation and PCB layout that you use with your web browser.EasyEDA homepage advertises: “EasyEDA is a free, zero-install, Web and Cloud-based EDA tool suite, integrating powerful schematic capture, mixed-mode circuit simulator and PCB layout in a seamless cross-platform browser environment, for electronic engineers, educators, students and →

OpenSCAD is a free software for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It is open source software that is available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows and Mac OS X – and also a version that runs online in browser. After quick testing it looks like OpenSCAD is a really wonderful tool for 3D modeling. While it doesn’t have →

GIMP the Free and Open Source, cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more. GIMP provides the tools needed for high quality image manipulation. Open source software GNU Manifesto turned 30 years on spring. Also GIMP celebrates round years: 20 Years of GIMP. November 21st 1995, few days over 20 years ago →