After 12 years in the making, the “brain computer” designed at the University of Manchester is finally switched on.
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Schematic Symbols for Electronic Components: Transistors
This two-article series presents an overview of circuit symbols and also provides some information on the components themselves. In the previous article, we covered the symbols for passive components and diodes, which are semiconductor devices that don’t provide amplification.
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7 Segment Clockwork Display Made From Cardboard
We’ve seen a variety of oddball 7-segment displays in the past, but this one uses a new material: both for the display and the mechanical mechanism that drives it; cardboard. Yup, the whole thing is made from cardboard, wood and a few rubber bands.
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Electrical Symbols for Electronic Components: Passive Components
Learn the electrical symbols of basic electronic components, including passive components (resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers), diodes, and thyristors. Electrical symbols are a short-hand way of indicating which components are involved in a circuit schematic.
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Reverse Engineering Nintendo LABO Waveform Cards
So you bought your first Nintendo LABO kit, carefully folded each cardboard key and button into shape, and now you have… a toy piano?
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A 48-hour project to merge a Hasselblad 500C/M and a FujiFilm Instax 9
Instant photos are magical. They develop before your eyes. You can share them, gift them, spill water on them, draw on them.
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FPGA Jacked Into Pinball Machine Masters High Scores
How do you preserve high scores in an old arcade cabinet when disconnecting the power? Is it possible to inject new high scores into a pinball machine? It was the b-plot of an episode of Seinfield, so it has to be worth doing, leading [matthew venn] down the rabbit hole of FPGAs and memory maps t
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Rigid-Flex PCB Design: Benefits and Design Best Practices
This article will discuss what rigid-flex PCBs are, the advantages of using them, and the rules for designing with them for an application. In electronics, we sometimes encounter seemingly new technologies that have roots in the past.
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Giant Connect Four Pits You Against the Computer
You can build a Connect Four solver in software, but it won’t be all that much fun. Now apply that same automation to a 15-foot-tall plywood version of the classic board game and you’ve just created a smile-making-machine for everyone within eyesight.
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Make An Electric Skateboard For Your Cat
Have you ever looked at your cat and thought “You know, my kitten really needs an electric skateboard!” Probably not, but this seems to have happened to [Kim Pimmel] while looking at his cat MIDI, so he decided to build one.
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