For some time now, many of EDN’s Design Ideas (DIs) have dealt with ground-referenced, single-power-supplied voltage regulators whose outputs can be configured to produce zero or near-zero volts [1][2 ...

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Sharma, Fu, and Ansari et al. developed a tool for converting plain-text instructions into photonic circuit designs with the help of a large language model (LLM). They hope their work serves as a ...

As their production costs fall, LEDs are being used more often in applications ranging from handheld devices to automotive and architectural lighting. Their high reliability (operational lifetimes of ...

Using a single microcontroller port to drive a multi-digit LED display to help engineers with those last-minute design ...

The rooms of the interior designer Sean Leffers’s West Hollywood home are filled with his own fabric designs and many, many antiques. By Molly Creeden We help a reader track down furniture from a ...

PID controller design has long been central to the stable and efficient operation of automatic voltage regulator (AVR) systems worldwide. Contemporary research in this field focuses on the ...

Protein design (or protein engineering) is a technique by which proteins with enhanced or novel functional properties are created. Proteins can be engineered by rational design, which typically uses ...

Today in power electronics, the folks over at Texas Instruments have put together a video covering low-dropout (LDO) linear regulators. For a hacker, power is pretty fundamental, so it behooves us ...

Nanoleaf's modular, stick-on lights take your mood lighting to the next level, but I have a few suggestions for making setup ...