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Images from http://www.dalton.ax/hpdisk/ Popular on eBay are old test equipment like Spectrum Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, and Multimeters. HPDisk by Gustafsson Anders creates a …

Go back to 1975. The idea of a computer at home was something that only happened in Science Fiction books. When the Altair 8800 was introduced, not only could you have a computer …

Having good libraries in EAGLE is critical to making schematic capture and PCB design fast. Dave at element14 put together a top 10 library link, which includes the list below. …

Video is rendered on a PC and provide to the analog scope for X/Y graphing.

Oscilloscopes are the most critical tool when it comes to debug and analysis of electronic circuits. In recent years, digital oscilloscopes finally surpassed their analog …

MinutePhysics, one of my favorite YouTube channels, has done a collaboration project to provide an animated short on a scientifically correct version of the Children’s song, …

What does Silicon have to do with Social Media? Silicon’s Atomic Number is 14. Wait what? Oh… element14 is, basically, a social media site for electrical engineers, embedded …

This beautiful Spectrogram video is instant nostalgia for any of us who used BBSes back in the 80s and 90s. The video comes from Scott H on Youtube. Several of the videos I have …

In an ideal world, wires would be ideal. They’d have no resistance, and therefore, no voltage drop. As we all know, our world is far from ideal which means so are our wires. While …

One of the most commonly used phrases when writing software is “reusable code.” From the Wikipedia article on “Code Reuse”. Reusable code is: the use of existing software, or …