If you’ve been putting off getting an Electroids kit, today is the last day for a purchase to count as an entrance into the iPod Shuffle giveaway.
I hope you’ve learned something this week, as we’ve shown you how to solder, the tools you need (and then some), and how to make a simple circuit, shown [...]

This is a first, folks. For a while, this mini-mod was always a saucy little secret of mine, but I suppose I’ll let you in on it.
Rather than assembling the 9v USB Charger in an Altoids tin, you could just connect the 9v battery snap to the 5v regulator, and wire that to the [...]

If you’ve been reading Dethroner this week, you’re probably ready for this. If you happened to have already put together the Mini LED Flashlight without setting your house on fire, you’re definitely ready.
The 9v USB Charger is, as the name implies, a USB charging device that uses cheap and ubiquitous 9-volt batteries to power any [...]

Our goal at Dethroner with Electricity Week is to motivate those of you who are still on the fence with electronics-making to get over their fears and jump aboard the DIY train. So far this week you’ve learned how to solder, the tools you need (and then some), and how to make a simple circuit. [...]

Think you’ve never created an electrical circuit before? I bet you’re wrong.
You know how you touch both terminals of a 9-volt battery to your tongue to make sure it works? That’s a circuit. The tingly zap you feel is the electricity flowing from the negative side of the battery, over your tongue, to the positive [...]

In my previous installment, we went through the bare essentials for any DIY toolkit and came to a total of $38 for the tools and parts that anybody should have on-hand. With those items, you should be able to do pretty much anything with a bit of elbow grease. More experienced DIYers wont be [...]

One of the things that keeps people from getting into DIY electronics is the fear that they’ll need to buy a bunch of crap before they’ll be able to do anything. This is the case with most hobbies; if you want to start painting you’ll need an easel and all kinds of expensive brushes, if [...]

As a bit of an electricity week treat, and perhaps as some motivation for the DIY-interested to finally get started with electronics-building, I’m announcing an iPod Shuffle giveaway for The Electroids Co.
It works like this: any order placed at The Electroids Co. until 11:59PM Eastern on Friday, March 9th that has the word “dethroner” in [...]

Hey. What’s up. Acknowledging reverse head-nod.
Now that the man greetings are out of the way… Hi! I’m Aaron Dunlap, and I’ll be your dutiful guest blogger for this theme week. Since this is an electronics/DIY themed week, Dethroner obviously went out and found themselves a world-renowned expert in electrical engineering and author of several electronics [...]