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In a recent video, [Andrew Zonenberg] takes us through the process of decapsulating a PIC12F683 to take a peak at its CMOS implementation. This is a multipart series with five …read more Continue reading Decapsulating a PIC12F683 to Examine Its CMOS Implementation
Over on ScienceDaily we learn that an international team of scientists have turned a common semiconductor germanium into a superconductor. Researchers have been able to make the semiconductor germanium superconductive …read more Continue reading Germanium Semiconductor Made Superconductor by Gallium Doping
One part wants 3.3V logic. Another wants 5V. What do you do? Over on the [Playduino] YouTube channel, there’s a recent video running us through a not-so-recent concern: various approaches …read more Continue reading Taking Electronics to a Different Level
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Here’s a fun rabbit hole to run down if you don’t already have the RP2040/RP2350 PIO feather in your cap: how to serve data without CPU intervention using PIO and …read more Continue reading A Deep Dive into Using PIO and DMA on the RP2350
In a recent video, [Jason Jacques] demos the Busch Electronic Digital-Technik 2075 which was released in West Germany in the 1970s. The Digital-Technik 2075 comes with a few components including …read more Continue reading The Busch Electronic Digital-Technik 2075 Digital Lab from the 1970s
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The Bomem DA3 is a type of Fourier transform spectrometer used for measuring various spectral data and [Usagi Electric] has one. On his quest to understand it he runs down …read more Continue reading Barcodes, “Lasers”, and Fourier Transforms
[Andrew Greenberg] has some specific ideas for how open-source hardware hackers could do a better job with their KiCad schematics. In his work with students at Portland State University, [Andrew] …read more Continue reading Making Actually Useful Schematics in KiCad
In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for posterity. …read more Continue reading Internet Archive Hits One Trillion Web Pages
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Over on YouTube [DENKI OTAKU] runs us through how a 4-pin MOSFET works and what the extra Kelvin source pin does. A typical MOSFET might come in a 3-pin TO-247 …read more Continue reading Exploring The Performance Gains Of Four-Pin MOSFETs
![[Usagi Electric] and his home brew computer](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TMS9900-home-brew-banner.jpg?w=800)
[Usagi Electric] is known for minicomputers, but in a recent video, he shows off his TMS9900-based homebrew computer. The TMS9900 CPU was an early 16-bit CPU famously used in the old …read more Continue reading TMS9900-based Home Brew Computer