Ever wondered how engineers inspect capacitors, resistors, and inductors? The solution is frequently in a device known as an LCR meter. The tool is quite valuable since it measures three significant ...

A printed circuit board turns separate parts into a stable system that powers up, talks to peripherals, and survives real ...

The automatic detection system proposed in this paper mainly focuses on automatic welding errors detection for tantalum capacitors. Without manual labeling standard PCBs, it can automatically ...

Is your Instax Mini 9 not turning on or ejecting film? Follow these quick fixes to restore your instant camera in minutes.

The work lifetime of Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCC) is a concern for EIA 0201 and smaller form-factor capacitors with challenging high capacitance requirements from high performance computing ...

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning systems has increased the demand for new hardware components that could speed up data analysis while consuming less power. As ...

A few years ago, I bought an 8 mm home movie camera in a second hand store. I did a teardown on it here and pulled out for ...

R ecently I noticed an irresistible offer on Craigslist: a Majestic 3C70 AM/shortwave radio for just US $50. This model dates ...

Microprocessors can behave in unwanted ways when their power supplies don’t deliver the expected voltage. Errors can occur, circuits can unexpectedly reset, or even go rogue. To prevent such problems, ...

Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [Jerry Walker] repairs a Tektronix 577 curve tracer. A curve tracer is a piece of equipment which plots I-V (current vs voltage) curves, among other things.

Using intelligent analog peripherals in an MCU as a way to handle signals that require some conditioning but aren’t particularly sensitive.