Monthly Archives: January 2016

Remembering Challenger

Thirty years ago today, we lost the Space Shuttle Challenger. And it didn’t have to happen. Continue reading

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Electronics Intuition, or The Giggle Test

Mathematical analysis is one of the most useful tools in electronics. With the right formulas, you can figure out what value capacitors and inductors to use to make a resonant circuit operate at a particular frequency, or what resistors to … Continue reading

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