The secret sauce is in component selection and tuning. Opengeiger uses the BPW34 diode because it is relatively common and has a large surface area, but also because it has a very low capacitance ...

despite USB-C making it so that devices can easily do precisely that in a standardized manner, killing off all those MicroUSB splitter adapters with weird resistors on the ID pin. By Ilya ...

A semiconductor diode is a non-linear device whose most outstanding feature is the fact that, basically, current is only allowed to flow in one direction. The diode is built by joining together two ...

Diodes Incorporated (Diodes) (Nasdaq: DIOD) today releases two USB Type-C® Power Delivery (PD) 3.1 extended power range (EPR) sink controllers. These can be embedded into battery-powered devices ...

October 2024 A USB adapter offers one of the easiest ways to add Wi-Fi access to a device, whether you have a new desktop PC that lacks built-in Wi-Fi or need to improve the existing wireless ...

Now that so many of us are signed up to cloud storage services, USB drives aren't as ubiquitous as they once were, but they ...

USB, short for Universal Serial Bus, more than likely powers a number of your home gadgets, smartphones and headphones. But as USB standards have evolved over time, this has often lead to some ...

External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to quickly back up your important files, as well as store any data that you don’t need on your ...

The Xiaomi 4-in-1 Dual-Head Splitter features dual-spec USB 3.0 connectors, offering both USB Type-C and USB-A support. With a total data transfer speed of up to 5Gbps, users can achieve rates ...

USB Type-C has widely become the de facto primary means of wired connection for most of our electronic devices. It forms the ...

The X and Y chromosomes, commonly referred to as the sex chromosomes, are one such pair. They determine the biological sex, reproductive organs, and sexual characteristics that develop in a person.