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Category Archives: Electronics
The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
Here’s a great talk about the Apollo Guidance Computer: Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer.
Early Content #5: Magic Smoke! | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Don’t try this at home, either! :P
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gku AC1009 Underdesk Keyboard Drawer notes |
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Early Content #4: Testing with Potentiometer | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Don’t try this at home. :)
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Kaisi S-160 45x30cm Repair Mat notes |
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Early Content #3: Reversing AC Adapter | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay
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I’m in the process of attempting to reverse the power control signal on an AC adapter I purchased recently, this is the first investigation…
This video goes with my question over on the EEVBlog forum: Help with DC adapter.
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Decadence
When I was a kid I had a clumsy analog multimeter, and I would have been awed to have something like this. Now you can buy them for $5, so I got a whole bunch of them…
iThings
In my lab I have an iPod touch (7th gen), an iPhone 6s (w/ SIM), an iPhone 6s (w/o SIM), and an iPhone 4s (w/o SIM). And two MacBook Pros. And I don’t even consider myself an Apple fanboi.
IDC ribbon cables
ChatGPT tells me about Insulation-Displacement Connector cables, such as these.
RTL
The initialism “RTL” can stand for both “Register Transfer Level” and “Resistor-Transistor Logic” as explained by ChatGPT.
Critical Path != Critical Section
I always get the concepts “critical path” and “critical section” confused.
The “critical section” is the part in your algorithm which you must hold a lock for; whereas the “critical path” is an idea from hardware design which relates to the time taken for the longest combinatorial logic that needs to be processed during a clock cycle, thus limiting the frequency you can run your clock at.
Although the terminology “critical path” came from hardware, the same terminology is used in software. ChatGPT has a fairly good write-up on the two uses of the term “critical path”.
I learned a little more about this in Introduction to VHDL for FPGA and ASIC design.