About a decade ago I started a strange little journey in my free time that cut a path across electronics manufacturing from over the last century. One morning I decided to find out how the little ...
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Vacuum Tubes (1943)

The video explains the operation of the vacuum tube, specifically the triode, which is essential in modern communication devices like radios and telephones. It describes how a tungsten filament emits ...
Although this has been a long time coming, we’re finally ready to attach metal flanges populated with NeoPixel strips to the Prognostication Engine’s vacuum tubes. Although this has been a long time ...
The transistor revolutionized the world and made the abundant computing we now rely on a possibility, but before the transistor, there was the vacuum tube. Large, hot, power hungry, and prone to ...