If you ever wished electrons would just behave, this one’s for you. A team from Tohoku, Osaka, and Manchester Universities...
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Over the history of the Web, we have seen several major shifts in browsing software. If you’re old enough to...
LEDs are getting smaller and smaller, and the newest generations of indexable RGB LEDs are even fiddlier to use than...
As part of the payloads on the Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 (BGM1) that recently touched down on the Moon,...
Although the Earth’s magnetic field is reliable enough for navigation and is also essential for blocking harmful solar emissions and...
It is easy to forget that many technology juggernauts weren’t always the only game in town. Ethernet seems ubiquitous today,...
Like many pieces of lab equipment, oscilloscopes are both extremely useful and rather intimidating to a fledgling user. Unlike a...
There are many rechargeable battery chemistries, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Currently lithium-ion and similar (e.g. Li-Po) rule...
Guanella Impedance Transformer. (Credit: FesZ Electronics) Even before entering the mystical realms of UHF design, radio frequency (RF) circuits come...
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are the subject of an emerging field in semiconductor research, with these materials offering a range of...
You can work with a part for many decades, and still learn something new about it. At least we can,...
The piece of copper wire moments before getting vaporized by 4,000 joules. (Credit: Hyperspace Pirate, Youtube) In lieu of high-explosives,...
High-speed bench equipment has become so much more affordable in the last decade that naturally one wonders what has made...
Sometimes it’s the simplest hacks that make the biggest impact. Take these DIY magnetic PCB vises for example. Sure, you...
has a video in which a wide variety of AA cells are analyzed and compared in terms of capacity, internal...
There’s a paradox in amateur radio: after all the time and effort spent getting a license and all the expense...
Can you use brake cleaner for flux removal on PCBs? According to , yes you can. But should you? Well,...
Who wouldn’t want to have a scanning electron microscope (SEM)? If you’re the person behind the ProjectsInFlight channel on YouTube, you...
Conventional wisdom has it that the solid state era in electronics began in 1948 with the invention of the transistor,...
We will admit it. If we found a 386 motherboard as badly corroded as the one did, we would trash...
If you’re planning on working satellites or doing any sort of RF work where the signal lives down in the...
wanted to see if a “common person” (in his words) could build an effective vertical ham radio antenna. If you...
The regenerative radio is long-ago superseded in commercial receivers, but it remains a common project for electronics or radio enthusiasts...
We’re not very far into the AI revolution at this point, but we’re far enough to know not to trust...
knows that real diodes you can buy don’t work exactly like we say they do. That’s actually pretty common. We...
