If you haven’t lived underneath a rock for the past decade or so, you will have seen a lot of arguing in the media by ...
These days just about any battery storage solution connected to PV solar or similar uses LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries. The reason ...
If you cultivate an interest in building radios it’s likely that you’ll at some point make a simple receiver. Perhaps a ...
Over on YouTube [Usagi Electric] shows us how to make RAM for the TMS9900. He starts by remarking that the TI-99/4A computer ...
If there’s one constant with software developers, it is that sometimes they get bored. At these times, they tend to think ...
We are absurdly spoiled these days by our microcontrollers. Take the CH32V00X family– they’ve been immortalized by meme as “the ten cent micro” but with a clock speed of ...
There’s a part you’ll find in almost every mains powered switch mode power supply that might at first appear to have only one application. An optocoupler sits between the low voltage ...
If I mention nuclear reactor accidents, you’d probably think of Three Mile Island, Fukushima, or maybe Chernobyl (or, now, Chornobyl). But there have been others that, for whatever reason, ...
Over on YouTube [CuriousMarc] and [TubeTimeUS] team up for a multi-part series E&L MMD-1 Mini-Micro Designer Restoration. The ...
We’ll be honest. If you had told us a few decades ago we’d teach computers to do what we want, it would work some of the time, and you wouldn’t really be able to explain or ...
We often take for granted how easy it is to get information in today’s modern, Internet-connected world. Especially around ...
Such are the breadth of functions delivered by integrated circuits, it’s now rare to see a simple small-signal transistor ...