I learned some basic electronics in high school physics class: resistors, capacitors, Kirchhoff’s law and such, and added only what was required for projects as I did them. Then around 15 years ago I ...

Early last spring, we featured a book review, as part of our occasional Books You Should Read series. Usually these are seminal tomes, those really useful books that stay with you for life and become ...

Electronics are the building blocks of the modern world. If you wish to understand how all of our technological achievements function, you can’t do it without first tackling electronics. The best ...

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On a physical level, a transistor’s internal functioning is very complex, but, in practice, using it in some simple experiments is quite easy and affordable for everyone. A transistor allows to create ...

You probably don’t really have any idea how your electronics work. Well, since you’re readers of Technology Review, maybe you do. But you know from experience that most people around you don’t. The ...