Showing posts with label ICs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ICs. Show all posts
Saturday, September 23, 2023

Sunburst and Luminary -- An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles (video)

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Friday, February 14, 2020

The Si4730 Radio Chip (Luddite Alert!) (video)

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I have misgivings about this.  Hack-A-Day presents it as a DIY radio project and wonders if this might be the modern equivalent of the cry...
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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Life in the Fast Lane: Potato Semiconductor Chips

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Even I, with my luddite tendencies and analog preferences, have recently bumped up against the speed limit of 74 series logic chips.  The ...
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Monday, November 2, 2015

De-mystifying a chip -- Looking inside the 741 Op-Amp

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Inside a 741 op amp, showing the die. This is a TO-99 metal can package, with the top sawed off This is really cool and potentially lif...
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Thursday, October 8, 2015

Sparks from Ron Sparks: The Grand Pooh Bah and Gilbert and Sullivan; SDR, Ned Ludd and Blaise Pascal

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  Hi Bill, Thanks very much for the mention in your tenth anniversary podcast!  It is great to know I am embedded in internet histor...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Finally! Dis-Intergrated Circuits! Discrete Component Op Amps!

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That, my friends, is a discrete component version of the 741 op amp chip.  I like it!  No more mysterious miniature black boxes -- here&#...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

HB Chips! Discrete Component Version of 555 Timer

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The world would be a better place if we could do more of this...  Thanks to David Cowhig for alerting me to this wonderful development. D...
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