For our 2025 Component Abuse Challenge there have been a set of entries which merely use a component for a purpose it wasn’t quite intended, and another which push misuse of a part into ...

Such are the breadth of functions delivered by integrated circuits, it’s now rare to see a simple small-signal transistor ...

What if a single board could bridge the gap between beginner-friendly simplicity and professional-grade power? Enter the Arduino Uno Q, a new evolution in the world of development boards. With its ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Qualcomm (QCOM.O), opens new tab on Tuesday said it has acquired Arduino, an Italian not-for-profit firm that makes hardware and software for developing prototypes of ...

Smartphone processor and modem maker Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, the Italian company known mainly for its open source ecosystem of microcontrollers and the software that makes them function. In its ...

Arduino is being acquired by Qualcomm subject to regulatory approval for an undisclosed sum. Qualcomm Arduino introduces a new UNO form factor board, the Arduino UNO Q, which features both a STM32 MCU ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

Frequent contributor Christopher Paul recently provided us with a painstakingly conservatively error-budget-analyzed Design Idea (DI) for a state-of-the-art pursuit of a 16-bit-perfection PWM DAC. The ...

A 163-page PDF of the iPhone 16e electrical schematics was briefly made public by the FCC, despite Apple’s express request to keep them confidential. Here’s what they showed. The filing included a ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently published a 163-page PDF showing the electrical schematics for the iPhone 16e, despite Apple specifically requesting them to be confidential. This ...

A controlled test compared three nearly identical pages: one with strong schema, one with poor schema, and one with none. Only the page with well-implemented schema appeared in an AI Overview and ...

Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it's a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has ...