If a newcomer to the electronics engineering community were to ask me to pick a topic that would follow them around throughout their career -- popping up when they least expect it like a surreal ...

Switches can do some really odd things. Most engineers learn this dirty little secret soon after connecting a switch or a relay to a digital system. Switches don’t make and break cleanly on the time ...

When a switch closes, the contacts do not close instantly and finally. The contacts close, then bounce open, and this cycle repeats for a period, depending on the switch-manufacturing technology. The ...