Cabe Atwell

Cabe is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design.

Engineer, Machinist, Maker, Writer. A graduate Electrical Engineer actively plying his expertise in the industry and at his company, Gunhead. When not designing/building, he creates a steady torrent of projects and content in the media world. Many of his projects and articles are online at element14 & SolidSmack, industry-focused work at EETimes & EDN, and offbeat articles at Make Magazine. Currently, you can find him hosting webinars and contributing to Electronic Design and Machine Design.

Cabe is an electrical engineer, design consultant and author with 25 years’ experience. His most recent book is “Essential 555 IC: Design, Configure, and Create Clever Circuits”

Cabe writes the Engineering on Friday blog on Electronic Design.

Areas of interest of the author: Security Power History of Electronics Video Computers & Peripherals Antique Supply

Publications on RadioLocman by the author Cabe Atwell:

Solar storms and their potential to create electronic chaos
Solar events have destroyed grids, set wires on fire, downed satellites. Are we ready for the next big one? Hollywood would have us believe that we could avert a global catastrophe from a solar flare by using...
Jun 16, 2025
The Internet formed in the 1960s - How did it start?
Initially imagined by Nikola Tesla in the early 1900s, the concept of a world wide web didn’t see creation until 60 years later. Take a trip alongside the history of the internet. Almost everyone around the...
Mar 10, 2025
The videocassette recorder: From humble beginnings to obsolescence
In today’s world, we rely primarily on streaming services to watch movies and TV shows at HD resolutions. Although a good portion of the population still takes advantage of Blu-ray players to watch media on...
Dec 5, 2024
How a dumb move spawned the x86 and kickstarted the PC revolution
Computer Terminal Corporation (now defunct Datapoint) launched the DataPoint 3300 computer terminal in 1969 as a platform to replace teleprinters, or the precursors to fax machines. The machine was implemented...
Aug 20, 2024
A brief history of switching power supplies
The high-efficiency switching power supply has become a staple ingredient in many of today’s electronic systems. What is its origins and how has it evolved over the decades? Switched-mode power supplies are...
Jun 4, 2024