Collaborate Disseminate
Over on YouTube [Andrew Neal] has a Function Generator Build for Beginners. As beginner videos go this one is fairly comprehensive. [Andrew] shows us how to build a square-wave generator …read more Continue reading 555-Based Square-Wave and Triangle-Wave Function Generator Build for Beginners
[Prof MAD] runs us through The Hidden Power of Inductors — Why Coils Resist Change. The less often used of the passive components, the humble and mysterious inductor is the …read more Continue reading A Deep Dive Into Inductors
Over on YouTube you can see [Yang-Hui He] present to The Royal Institution about Mathematics: The rise of the machines. In this one hour presentation [Yang-Hui He] explains how AI …read more Continue reading [Yang-Hui He] Presents to The Royal Institution About AI and Mathematics
[Alex Hao] and [Andreas Bastian] of Lumafield recently visited with [Adam Savage] to share their battery quality report, which documents their findings after performing X-ray computed tomography scans on over …read more Continue reading Lumafield Peers into the 18650 Battery
You’ve probably heard — we’re currently experiencing very high RAM prices due mostly to increased demand from AI data centers. If you’ve been priced out of new RAM you are …read more Continue reading Surviving the RAM Price Squeeze With Linux In-Kernel Memory Compression
[Make Something] boasts he has made probably the fanciest picture frame you’ll ever see. He started with an original sign purchased on eBay and then made it to be bigger, …read more Continue reading Ultimate Picture Frame Combines Walnut and 3D Printing
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Attributed to Picasso was the notion that when art critics get together they talk about content, style, trend, and meaning; but that when painters get together they talk about where …read more Continue reading Reviewing Tweezers for Microsoldering and SMD Work
Over on YouTube [Nic Barker] gives us: UTF-8, Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text data. And …read more Continue reading Nic Barker Explains ASCII, Unicode, and UTF-8
Over on YouTube [Kiss Analog] reviews the New Zoyi ZT-QB9 Smart Clamp meter. If you’re putting together an electronics lab from scratch you absolutely must get a multimeter to start. …read more Continue reading Review and Demo of the Zoyi ZT-QB9 Smart Clamp Meter
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[Dr Ali Shirsavar] from Biricha Digital runs us through How to Select the Perfect Output Capacitor for Your Power Supply. Your switching-mode power supply (SMPS) will require an output capacitor …read more Continue reading Calculating the Capacitance and ESR Specifications for the Output Capacitor in Your Switching-Mode Power Supply