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Understanding MOSFETs: 12 Essential Questions Answered

Reading Time: 16 minutesIntroduction The Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) plays a pivotal role in countless applications in electronics ranging from power management to digital circuits. Unlike traditional transistors, MOSFETs are voltage-controlled devices, offering advantages such as high input impedance, fast switching speeds, and low power consumption. Their operation is based on the voltage applied to the gate terminal, […]

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Understanding MOSFETs: Key Concepts and Practical Examples

Reading Time: 18 minutesIntroduction to MOSFETs Let’s talk about a specific type of field-effect transistor (FET); the Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor. Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor is a mouthful, so let’s just call it MOSFET or by its plural form MOSFETs. MOSFETs are a type of transistor used for switching and amplifying electronic signals. They are crucial components in modern electronics, found in everything from power […]

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe we’re recently in need of making some changes to some pages on the website that we’re not working properly. Those specific pages were the pages for the OwlBot project. The code blocks on those pages for the Arduino code were giving us issues on how the pages were showing up in the browser, so […]

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How to Make an OwlBot: The Bird Intimidator – Part 3: Flashing Red LED Eyes

Reading Time: 19 minutesProject Name: OwlBot Project Description: Part 3 build of the OwlBot, where we add the OwlBot’s flashing red LED eyes to our prototype. Project Difficulty: Easy Project Note: For this third part of the project, we’ll focus on the OwlBot’s flashing red LED eyes. We’ll update the code for when motion is detected by the […]

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How to Make an OwlBot: The Bird Intimidator – Part 2: Making Sounds

Reading Time: 27 minutesProject Name: OwlBot Project Description: Part 2 build of the OwlBot, where we add an MP3 player to the OwlBot prototype to give it the ability to make sound when motion is detected by the PIR sensor that was installed in Part 1 of the build. Project Difficulty: Easy Project Note: For this second part […]

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How to Make an OwlBot: The Bird Intimidator – Part 1: Motion Sensing

Reading Time: 24 minutesProject Name: OwlBot Project Description: Part 1 build of the OwlBot, where we start by getting the prototype of the OwlBot to sense infrared motion. Project Difficulty: Easy Project Note: For this first part of the project, we’ll focus on the OwlBot’s infrared sensing capabilities using a PIR sensor module. Introduction In this project we’re […]

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Transistors 101: The Building Blocks of Your Favorite Gadgets

Reading Time: 16 minutesWhat is a Transistor? A transistor is a semiconductor device that serves as a fundamental building block in modern electronics. It is primarily used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. Transistors are composed of semiconductor materials of either P-type or N-type, where these materials are sandwiched together to form P-N junctions. These junctions […]

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