A Planet Analog article, “2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor?” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old transistor and how it’s commonly used, and if any uncommon uses might exist.

The first transistors were point contact devices, not far from the cats-whiskers of early radio receivers. They were fragile and expensive, and their performance was not very high. The transistor ...

The Philippine National Police (PNP) confirmed Thursday that search, rescue, and retrieval (SRR) operations have concluded in areas hit by the magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Cebu, with authorities now ...

Researchers unveil a roadmap for 2D transistor gate stack design, marking a key step toward ultra-efficient chips that could ...

Frequent contributor Christopher Paul recently provided us with a painstakingly conservatively error-budget-analyzed Design Idea (DI) for a state-of-the-art pursuit of a 16-bit-perfection PWM DAC. The ...

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has tapped former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Rodolfo Azurin Jr. as Special Adviser and Investigator of the Independent Commission for ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica—President of the People’s National Party (PNP) Mark Golding on Monday announced the appointment of the party’s new shadow cabinet. “In unveiling this Shadow Cabinet, we present a ...

MANILA, Philippines — A former Philippine National Police chief has been appointed investigator and special adviser to the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI), replacing Baguio City Mayor ...

The Philippine National Police confirmed on Monday that the five police security escorts assigned to Ako Bicol Representative Zaldy Co have been recalled after the lawmaker left the country, amid ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) tasked the Police Regional Office Central Visayas (PRO 7) to activate its Disaster Incident Management Task Group. “[Acting PNP Chief Lt. Gen ...

Generally people equate the Arduino hardware platforms with MCU-centric options that are great for things like low-powered embedded computing, but less for running desktop operating systems. This ...