How to Design a Robot You Can Swallow – IEEE Spectrum
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Electronics Design
Boolean logic 200 years old
Celebrate the 200th Birthday of George Boole With Logic Slashdot posting tells that November 2nd 2015 is the bicentenary of George Boole, dubbed the forefather of modern information technology. To mark the event 55,000 school students globally will be learning about Boolean Logic. According to the George Boole 200 website, set up by University College Cork (UCC), the Irish university →
A fully transparent solar cell that could make every window and screen a power source
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Autodesk Open Source 3D Printer
I have been interested in 3D printing related technology – I have followed the development on the field and written on it. There has been many interesting open source ED printers starting from RepRap to all kinds of 3D printer designs. It is interesting to see what makes those cheap FDM devices to run. But →
Rooting Out Malware With a Side-Channel Chip Defense System – IEEE Spectrum
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Gigahertz Antenna-on-a-Chip Theory Is Questioned – IEEE Spectrum
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Graphene Filament Enables Fabrication of Electronic Devices with 3-D Printing – IEEE Spectrum
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PrintPut Integrates Touch Sensors Into 3-D Printed Objects – IEEE Spectrum
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Interesting signal generators
Function generator in an important tool in electronics laboratory. It allows to generate different types of electrical waveforms over a wide range of frequencies. Traditionally function generators have been built using analogue electronics. There have been special ICs that have been widely used for this: Exar XR2206 and the Intersil ICL8038integrated circuits can generate sine, →
Friday Quiz: Transformers and Inductance
Friday Quiz: Transformers and Inductance has an interesting set of questions about the important components in nearly every power supply. Try to answer them and check how many of your answers you get correct. It could show that you have some misconceptions on transformers. You most propably get learning experience from correct answers. →