Say you’re building a gadget. You’ll probably need several widgets, gizmos and electronic thingymabobs. CircuitHub is now here to help. The startup launched today and is attempting to be the world’s ...

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In the latest sign hardware startups are enjoying a renaissance, electronics-design facilitator CircuitHub Inc. is emerging from stealth to open its wiki-style library to the masses. "We want to ...

Jonathan Friedman developed the idea for San Jose-based CircuitHub's online electronic parts library while working his way through grad school at UCLA. The Y Combinator company is backed by Google ...

Kickstarter isn’t the solution to every manufacturing hurdle, you know? Crowdsourcing—everybody’s favorite cliché to invoke after sharing their less-than-half-baked merchandise idea—has expanded to ...