Category Archives: Analog

Anything and everything related to analog electronics (which on this blog won’t be much, trust me.)

Homemade Capacitors

Making a working homemade capacitor with mica, aluminum foil, and a 3D printer. Continue reading

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Investigating VOR signals, Part 1

A field trip is made to the Bangor (BGR) VOR beacon, in order to capture a clean signal from ground level. Continue reading

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Analog Mechanical Computing

Film showing principles of analog mechanical firing-control computers from 1953. Continue reading

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Your Amplitude May Vary

When is a volt not necessarily a volt? When it’s an output amplitude from a signal generator which doesn’t measure its own output… Continue reading

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