Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve been building circuits for any length of time, you probably know you need decoupling capacitors to keep your circuits stable. But even though it’s a favorite technique of …read more Continue reading Proper Decoupling Capacitors
[OZ2CPU] has an HP power supply that is about 30 years old. It looks brand new, though, and has three outputs and includes tracking for the adjustable positive and negative …read more Continue reading Tearing Down and Improving a Professional Power Supply
[Johannes 4GNU_Linux] has been filming a video series on how to write Linux device drivers for a couple of years now, but luckily, you won’t need that long to watch …read more Continue reading Linux Device Drivers in Only a Few Years
Usually, if you are listening to people debate about nuclear issues, it is one of two topics: how to deal with nuclear weapon stockpiles or if we want nuclear power …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Better Living Through A-Bombs
At the very start of the personal computer revolution, there were relatively inexpensive boards with little more than a CPU, some memory, a display, and switches or a keypad. Some …read more Continue reading Kim-1: Memory Problem Resolved
While the Fourier transform gets all the attention, there are other transforms that engineers and mathematicians use to transform signals from one form to another. Sometimes you use a transform …read more Continue reading A Quick Look at the Hilbert Transform
You can easily get carried away when trying to test things. For example, if you want to know if your car is working, you could measure the timing of the …read more Continue reading Roll Your Own Simple Tube Tester
Decades ago, electronic components were not as easy to acquire as they are today. Sure, you could get some things at Radio Shack. But you might not have many choices, …read more Continue reading Watch Those 1% Resistors
Which Russian weather satellite has the name Meteor 2? According to [saveitforparts], pretty much all of them. He showed how to grab images from an earlier satellite with the same …read more Continue reading Russian Weather Satellite Reuses Name, Yields Images
The average modern cruise ship takes about 250 tons or 80,000 gallons of fuel daily. But can you imagine a cruise ship capable of circling the globe fourteen times before …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Nuclear Cruise Ship of the Future Earns Glowing Reviews