If you’ve ever had a burning desire to weigh in on operations at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, now’s your chance. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is looking to create an advisory ...

There's something exciting about the idea of building gadgets yourself, free from the compromises or constraints of existing products out there. Maybe you're worried about all the preinstalled ...

Kitty is one of the many terminal emulators for Linux and macOS. You probably don’t think much about your terminal emulator: it gets out of the way, letting you type on the command line and work with ...

Working on a little script the other day I had the need to determine if the input to the script was coming from a pipe or from the terminal. Seems like a simple enough thing to determine but nothing ...

The city of Mukilteo's longhouse-inspired ferry terminal is on track to open to passengers this fall. (Courtesy LMN Architects) Wedged between an Ivar’s fish bar and a shoreline-hugging condo complex ...

The very basics of operational amplifiers. Learn comparator, inverting, and non-inverting op-amp configurations. An operational amplifier, or op amp, is a dc-coupled high-gain electronic voltage ...

Instrumentation amplifiers find wide use in real-world data acquisition. However, designers often incorrectly apply them. Specifically, although modern in amps have excellent CMR (common-mode ...

In the previous installment of this series, we looked how the differential input configuration of an ADC can improve its performance. This installment talks about another ADC specification that ...