| The Tektronix 570 Characteristic-Curve Tracer introduced in 1955 draws pretty graphs of a vacuum tube's plate current (vertical axis) agains...
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| I’ve written about quite a few different types of vacuum tubes in previous installments so let’s continue that theme and look at vacuum flor...
| In my SHARE opening words in the previous edition I shared with you a small project by translator Kees de Groot: a Nixie clock without Nixie...
| I knew it had to happen some day: the Raspberry Pi goes back in time by the addition of a vacuum tube. Pi2Media (a division of Pi2Design) h...
| In January 2010 Elektor published a magic eye, an electron-ray indicator tube, to visualize the processing charge of the CPU in a PC. The gl...
| When you think of vacuum tubes, I bet you the first thing you think of is a bulky, heavy audio amplifier with large glowing glass tubes humm...
| Johan Basse Bergqvist’s book The Bottle Builder is secure on the bookshelf of all audio engineers at Elektor Labs! It presents a long, impre...
| DARPA, through its Innovative Vacuum Electronic Science and Technology (INVEST) program, aims to develop the science and technology base for...
| I know electronic engineers who start crying in disbelief, calling me names, and pulling what’s left of their hairs, on hearing that a piece...
| In its August 2015 edition, audioXpress magazine published a review of Vanderveen Trans Tube Amplifiers. In this book Menno Van der Veen des...