A friend from the newly founded Yeovil Hackerspace introduced me to a device known as “The Kraakdoos” or cracklebox. The cracklebox is an early electronic instrument produced by STEIM in the 1970s.

Let’s say that for a project you are working on, you need an opamp (of course, I would like it to be one of one of Touchstone’s opamps), and you want to make sure that the amplifier meets your ...

ICs that in the past were far too expensive for the hobbyist tend to be more favourably priced these days. An example of this is the AD8099 from Analog Devices. This opamp is available for only a few ...