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why are chips often so expensive? how do chip companies determine the prices of their chips? a thread... first thing chip companies do is to figure out the COGS

let's take apart this old TV camera! just 4 screws... woah, that's a lot of boards so many adjustment trimmers! these were a royal pain to align! HV

this Tesla SUV ran into a traffic barrier at 70mph while on Autopilot. how could this happen? there are 3 major contributing causes, and they're *fascinating* before we dig into

all right, this is a new one. a EULA on...fruit?!'the recipient of the produce contained in this package agrees not to propagate or reproduce any portion of this produce, including

this is one of the world's first electronic calculators, the Friden EC-130, which came out in 1964! it's a really fascinating machine, so let's look at it in more detail.

this desk fan is 85 years old and still running strong. how would YOU design an electronics gadget to last 100 years? what components would you use? what potential failures

oh look a schematic oh look the start of a layout oh look a preliminary component placement.long card is l o o n g oh look i'm starting to route

this electrical transmission tower has a little problem. can you spot it? actually, it's not a small problem--it cost us 16.65 *billion* dollars and caused the deaths of 85 people.

on June 16 of this year, PG&E pled guilty to charges of unlawfully causing a fire and 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter. their penalty? a $4 million fine. so what

here's a fun piece of (very) 1990s hardware: the Snappy Video Snapshop, from a company called Play, Inc. it is a video digitizer, so video goes in one end... ...and

today i took apart some electrolytic capacitors, and learned some surprising things. i wanted to review the manufacturing process, but let's first take apart this capacitor. the plastic sleeve

nearly 35 years ago the Commodore Amiga 1000 shipped. it was sold with 256KB RAM, standard. not many know this, but Commodore secretly equipped it with 256KB of *additional* RAM