I’ve had the pleasure of working at multiple startups of varying sizes. One consistent challenge I’ve seen is the pivot from being a sales-led organization to becoming product-led. Many startups ...

When scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) tried to apply their expertise in solar cell technology to build a green LED light from the ground up, they surprisingly centered the ...

The real core of engineering, in addition to technical expertise, is the ability to articulate the inevitable tradeoffs and pros/cons of design alternatives, and then weigh these relative to each ...

They’re consistently popular with the readers, which is admittedly part of my (and EDN’s) motivation to continue doing them. But I personally also find them fascinating; inevitably I come across at ...

Ask a designer or electrician about LED lightbulbs, and prepare to get a longer answer than you expected. In the last decade, LEDs bulbs — which contain an array of light-emitting diodes (a type of ...

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