Datasheet Digest 🧐

Datasheet Digest is the podcast that goes over the good, the bad, and the ugly of electronic components. Thanks for listening. 🔊 #DatasheetDigest

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Optocouplers are fun! They can be used to isolate two circuits up to 5,000 volts!

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A thread about neat 555 facts and stories. Doing some research in the 555 timer. Did you know that the 555 timer was originally released in both a standard DIP-8 package along with a metal can package? Does anyone have one of these? 🧵🪡

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Today I got a hilarious and wonderful Christmas surprise in the mail from @MakeAugusta!

Not in a million years would I have been able to guess what was in this package when he told me something was headed my way.

David does pcb event badges and design - all USA made - 100% worth checking out!

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Feeling bored. Might destroy a transatlantic cable later. Idk. - Dr. EOW Whitehouse (probably)

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@lauriewired neat!

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Shopping for a computer? An ad from 1977.

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Twenty years ago, the Internet was a work in progress.

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@geerlingguy I just got one and haven't noticed an improvement from my M1 MBP. Could you suggest something that will make the improvement of evidence to the everyman?

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oh boy

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Werner Siemens named his custom-made cable laying ship after his dear friend Michael Faraday. That's really nice. He and Faraday worked together solving issues in telegraph cables in the middle of the nineteenth century. CS Faraday

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Have you ever wondered how some parts got their part number? 1N4001? 2N2222? That story started over 100 years ago.

Learn more in this article from @digikey Magazine.

The Rise of Designators: The Semiconductor Part Designation Origin Story: https://t.co/eOpRGQGgYC

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Gerber is a familiar name to many in the electronics design and manufacturing industry. It is the name given to the manufacturing automation instruction files generated by printed circuit board (PCB) layout software.

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Cyrus West Field

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Feeling bored. Might destroy a transatlantic cable later. Idk. - Dr. EOW Whitehouse (probably)

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British America

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1 - Unplug cord from phone.
2 - Plug in jack marked ‘WALL’.
3 - Connect Direct Connect cable from jack marked ‘PHONE’ to telephone connector.
#Silent700 #TTY4LYFE

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Alexander Graham Bell, inventor who patented the telephone in 1876, lecturing at Salem, Massachusetts (top), while friends in his study at Boston listen to his lecture via telephone, February 12, 1877. (Britannica)