Author Topic: Fun for nerds (Read 213969 times)

RoGeorge · « **Reply #75 on:** November 23, 2019, 06:52:29 pm »

A new type of electronic component, the BiZen transistor:

Circuit symbol for the Bizen (Bipolar-Zener) transistor showing the input which uses the quantum tunneling effect. (Image: SFN)
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1335216#

https://hackaday.com/2019/11/23/new-part-day-the-bizen-transistor/

RoGeorge · « **Reply #76 on:** November 25, 2019, 01:36:24 pm »

Stolen from de∫hipu:

RoGeorge · « **Reply #77 on:** November 30, 2019, 09:07:22 pm »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #78 on:** December 02, 2019, 08:30:40 pm »

Lab with a quantum computer:

(it only makes sense after reading their papers)

RoGeorge · « **Reply #79 on:** December 07, 2019, 03:20:24 pm »

A real tale with spies and physicists and H-bomb plans lost in a train.

RoGeorge · « **Reply #80 on:** December 14, 2019, 03:56:27 pm »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #81 on:** December 20, 2019, 12:03:58 pm »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #82 on:** January 07, 2020, 07:25:40 pm »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #83 on:** January 09, 2020, 11:10:33 pm »

Interesting paper about another subject, correcting RF leakage:
Scalar Network Analyzer Leakage Correction, by Ted Yapo
https://drive.google.com/file/d/132w56treJsABD6a_0f7Oilfb4Dvm1751/view
published in https://journal.hackaday.io/current

RoGeorge · « **Reply #84 on:** January 10, 2020, 10:41:56 pm »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #85 on:** January 12, 2020, 09:48:15 pm »

Old gems:

RoGeorge · « **Reply #86 on:** January 17, 2020, 12:57:13 am »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #87 on:** January 28, 2020, 07:48:09 pm »

Q: - What animal gives milk?
A: - The fly.

Tsetse fly.

RoGeorge · « **Reply #88 on:** January 29, 2020, 04:38:54 pm »

Boston Dynamics' new year resolutions for 2020 are about making a business turn.
Better don't go into law enforcement, BD, don't go there.

RoGeorge · « **Reply #89 on:** January 31, 2020, 11:46:02 am »

Waiting for the first Li-Fu battery in 3, 2, 1,

RoGeorge · « **Reply #90 on:** January 31, 2020, 11:55:34 pm »

Shhhhh! Be vewy, vewy, quiet.
He's gonna say about some wabit.

1Ghz · « **Reply #91 on:** February 01, 2020, 10:22:03 am »

Very nice cover

RoGeorge · « **Reply #92 on:** February 10, 2020, 08:18:11 pm »

States of Matter by David L. Goodstein

RoGeorge · « **Reply #93 on:** February 12, 2020, 02:44:15 pm »

The "Deep Look" team is usually doing videos like this:

now opening a new channel, "PBS Terra", about ANTARCTICA

Subscribed!

RoGeorge · « **Reply #94 on:** February 16, 2020, 03:15:29 pm »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #95 on:** February 17, 2020, 02:42:47 pm »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #96 on:** February 23, 2020, 08:47:33 am »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #97 on:** February 29, 2020, 02:18:26 pm »

The opposite of Microsoft Office is Macrohard Onfire.

RoGeorge · « **Reply #98 on:** March 02, 2020, 08:16:35 pm »

What comes after USA? USB.

RoGeorge · « **Reply #99 on:** March 02, 2020, 10:45:30 pm »

Wanna see a rocket factory?