[Arduino Super Introduction #33] Changing Brightness with PWM | Let's Adjust LED Brightness with High-Speed On and Off

In the previous chapter, we stored the current state in a variable and switched the LED operation mode every time the button was pressed.The signals sent to the LED so far have been of two types: HIGH ...
Hackaday

Will Superconducting Transistors Help Quantum Computers?

Despite all the glamorous promises made about quantum computing, it’s hard to make the argument that today’s quantum ...

[Arduino Super Introduction #24] Mini Project: Automatic Lighting | Let's Automatically Turn on an LED When It Gets Dark

In the previous chapter, we used a light sensor to read the ambient brightness as a value from 0 to 1023.This time, we will ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN

Measure distant asteroids with a DIY rig

Watching space rocks obscure stars is easier than you think ...
elektormagazine

Transistor Curvetracer with Arduino NANO R4

After I developed and published a Transistor Curvetracer based on the Arduino NANO R3 a few years ago, I analyzed the datasheet for the Arduino NANO-R4 and came up with the idea of developing an ...
Wired

Transistors Changed Everything. Here’s How They Work

Last week I revealed the sneaky physics behind the “joule thief,” an electrical circuit that lets you squeeze more energy out of seemingly dead batteries. The key, it turned out, was a clever pairing ...
Snopes.com

Did Trump confuse 'transistor' with 'transgender' in speech criticizing CHIPS Act? We examined footage

In July 2026, social media posts claimed U.S. President Donald Trump confused the words "transistor" and "transgender" during a speech criticizing the CHIPS and Science Act, a 2022 bipartisan effort ...
Nature

As transistors get smaller, electrodes must keep shrinking too

Direct imaging shows that the contacts through which current flows into atomically thin transistors can be scaled down to just a few nanometres in length. Read the paper: Directly probing the carrier ...
New Atlas

IBM's fingernail-sized chip fits 100 billion transistors

IBM has developed the blueprint for producing a processor using sub-1-nanometer (nm) chip technology, outdoing its own efforts to increase efficiency and processing power with 2-nm tech from a few ...
CNET

IBM’s New Chip Fits Nearly 100 Billion Transistors in the Size of a Fingernail

IBM on Thursday unveiled the first chip created using its latest semiconductor technologies, one that holds nearly 100 billion transistors in a fleck of hardware no bigger than your fingernail.
Forbes

IBM Unveils World’s First Sub-1nm Chip With 100 Billion 3D-Stacked Transistors

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. IBM has announced a major breakthrough in semiconductor technology, unveiling the world's ...
ZDNet

IBM says it can fit nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip – why the milestone matters

TSMC, Intel, and Samsung have all been pushing to produce low‑single‑nanometer chips in the next two years, while planning to produce sub-nanometer chips sometime by decade’s end. That race may be ...