With surface-mount components quickly becoming the norm, even for homebrew hardware, the resistor color-code can sometimes feel a bit old-hat. However, anybody who has ever tried to identify a ...

Smith] from the University of Washington, which purports to construct a low-throughput RF transmitter from little more than a resistor. This witchcraft is made possible thanks to Johnson noise ...

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Nick Harris, boss of Lightmatter, a California-based photonic-chip startup, points out that optical computers are not good ...

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Here’s how to use a multimeter, a tool that measures electrical values, to test for voltage.

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