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STICKY Megathread: Random observations about electronic devices

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HP ad campaign claims its printers are ‘made to be less hated’ following years of anti-consumer behavior | lol get fucked hp you're printers are a scam to tax people too stupid to look for something better.

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A Field Guide To Transmission Lines

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SIze differences in old vs. new parts. [4032x3024 - 814KB]

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TIL people rename electronic components like switching power supplies to transformers.

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@sporkulon Here are the pics of the VandyVape Pulse's PCB you asked me to get for you a while back

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Texas Instruments says fuck you to hardware designers and breaks the NE5532 and other devices Into incompatible versions.

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GaN 65W power supply/charger bought for four quid from Aliexpress

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What are your thoughts on PCB design software

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Retro Tech: The Wire Recorder

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Researchers measure near-perfect performance in low-cost semiconductors

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An Off-The-Grid Instant Messaging Plattform

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Learning About Capacitors By Rolling Your Own Electrolytics

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Observations Some optical drives refuse to speed up again after encountering damaged parts of a disc once. (And other strange speed limits.)

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We all know software is inherently insecure but did you know electronics isn't any better?

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Guitar wiring schematic help [3425x2478 - 511KB]

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Electricity Basics: Resistance, Inductance and Capacitance

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Frequency and voltage manipulation

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A video about magnetrons you literally can not understand. Maybe Commiela could explain it so we can understand it.

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Using EPROMS And EEPROMs As Programmable Logic With Lisp

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Build a Burning Laser from an Old DVD Burner [12:52]

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$166 Mustool MT13S thermal imager doubles as multimeter

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Making logic gates from transistors

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AT&T Archives: A Modern Aladdin's Lamp, about vacuum tubes,1940

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Overburning CD-RW experience: Disc speeds up towards the end when played back using old audio CD player!

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Got these great capacitors for sale cheap - Great value! [650x500 - 60KB]

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