Tag: electrical-engineering

5 Stages of understanding transistors

The transistor will go down as one of the most consequential inventions in history, behind agriculture, paper, and the Super Soaker. But on the list of inventions that have completely transformed the very fabric of the human condition, it showed up pretty late in the game, and that's because it's a fairly complex thing. Conceptually … Continue reading 5 Stages of understanding transistors

Find Your Niche

Because I spend all day at work browsing DigiKey and reading articles about electronics, I get served up ads for textbooks, causing me to rapidly and aggressively re-evaluate my life. One of the books it advertised was titled "Wandering Spurs in MASH-Based Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizers" by Dawei Mai & Michael Peter Kennedy. This is the … Continue reading Find Your Niche