For our 2025 Component Abuse Challenge there have been a set of entries which merely use a component for a purpose it wasn’t quite intended, and another which push misuse of a part into ...

With a 4k1 collector resistor and 16mA drive into the led, the chosen (read ‘cheapest on ebay’) 6N135 is supposed to beat 1.5μs for both turn on and turn off, with typical figures of 90ns and 800ns.

To meet the growing demands of flexible and wearable electronic systems, such as smart watches and biomedical sensors, ...

It’s rather amazing how many electronic components you can buy right now are not quite the genuine parts that they are sold ...

This video explains how transistors work as switches and amplifiers in electronic circuits. Transistors control the flow of ...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), cylindrical nanostructures made of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, have proved to be ...

A team of scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have created an ultrathin transistor unlike ...

The 200 trekkers stranded on Mount Everest are already at risk of death, mountaineers have warned The Post. Officials are racing to rescue those stuck on Everest after a freak blizzard hit the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Over the past few weeks, more and more protesters at the ICE facility in Portland have been wearing costumes — the frog, a dinosaur, Barney. Part of that is due to a new ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado is no stranger to strange objects floating or flying across the sky (remember “Balloon Boy” from October 2009?), and many residents wanted answers for a strange balloon seen ...

Federal and state law enforcement officers arrested 120 individuals for immigration-related violations during a multiday operation along Interstate 40 in western Oklahoma, according to Immigration and ...