There are indeed happy accidents. In this case, the accident happened to be dropping a surface mount resistor into a hole on a PCB. It fit perfectl ...
A young colleague was trying to make a measurement using an analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) and convert this measurement into a voltage to be d ...
PCB layout designers used to work from schematics that were usually drawn in a meaningful way so as to show circuit functionality and to be readabl ...
A friend of mine works for a company that builds small radio-controlled boats used for fishing. They are called "bait boats." He took me to their c ...
The concept of time is simple yet complex. In its simplest form, it's the counting of a regular, repeating pattern. On the opposite end, we would h ...
Over time, I have developed a horror of replaceable, single-use batteries. I'm not particularly a greenie, but it just seems to be an incredible wa ...
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