has another lecture online that dives deep into the physics of electronic processes. This time, the subject is magnetic transformers....
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Looking for an educational microcontroller board to get you or a loved one into electronics? Consider the tinyCore – a...
As technology marches on, gear that once required expensive lab equipment is now showing up in devices you can buy...
We have probably all been there: digging through boxes full of old boards for projects and related parts. Often it’s...
One of the major difficulties in studying electricity, especially when compared to many other physical phenomena, is that it cannot...
If you’ve seen a big air-variable capacitor, you may have noticed that some of the plates may have slots cut...
powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969....
It seems like a fair assessment to state that the many ‘AI’ features that Microsoft added to Windows 11 are...
If you’re a regular reader of Hackaday, you may have noticed a certain fondness for Meshtastic devices, and the LoRa...
UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of...
If you are a schoolkid of the right age, you can’t wait to lose a baby tooth. In many cultures,...
After you have written the code for some awesome application, you of course want other people to be able to...
These days, Internet connectivity is ubiquitous, so you can look up live weather data on just about any device around...
Looking up at the sky just after sunset or just before sunrise will reveal a fairly staggering amount of satellites...
If you work on simple digital projects, just about any bench supply will offer the voltage and current you’re looking...
If you’ve got an old black and white TV, it’s probably not useful for much. There are precious few analog...
It’s been twenty-three years since the day Phoenix was released, the web browser that eventually became Firefox. I downloaded it...
Seven-segment displays are one of the most ho-hum ways to display the time. They were cool for a little bit...
If you want to know when the train is coming, you could pull up a webpage on your phone, or...
We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they...
takes us back to basics in a recent video explaining how magnets, coils, brushed DC motors, and brushless DC motors...
The increasing dominance of lithium cells in the market place leave our trusty NiMH cells in a rough spot. Sure,...
It isn’t unusual to expect a precisely regulated voltage in an electronic project, but what about times when you need...
In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the...
It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input...
