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What Does a Diode Actually Do?

A diode is a tiny component with a powerful job—controlling the direction of electrical current. This video explains how ...
Electricity doesn’t just flow freely in every direction—it needs control. That control comes from a tiny but powerful component: the diode. In this video, you’ll learn how diodes work, why they allow ...
Frederik Dostal explains the rise of the ideal diode and how it can be used to develop more robust power systems.
Take three rare Soviet-era germanium diodes, add a band-pass filter, and there you have it, the recipe for a limited edition ...
The bidirectional flyback-based active cell balancing approach offers a compact and scalable solution for modern multicell ...
Lumentum (LITE) has suddenly landed in the spotlight after Mizuho just raised its one-year price target to $325, a Street ...
For the Component Abuse Challenge, we asked you to do the wrong thing with electrical parts, but nonetheless come out with the right result. It’s probably the most Hackaday challenge we have run ...
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When you get an MRI scan, the machine exploits a phenomenon called nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Certain kinds of atomic ...
What happens to a battery charger that balks at…umm…y’know…reliably charging batteries? It goes under the teardown knife, of ...