Electronics & circuit design Videos Recommended on Hacker News (95)
Electronics & circuit design is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 95 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 283 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Electronics: analog and digital circuits, PCB design, grounding and EMI, signal integrity, power supplies, oscilloscopes, EEVblog, Ben Eater, op-amps, RF and radio, test equipment.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition): “By far the best introduction to the subject of waves of any sort.” — an HN commenter, 2019.
Type
TalkLectureDocumentaryExplainerDemoTutorialInterviewCommentaryComedyMusicPodcastsNews & reportingCoursesFeatures
Evergreen only
15 mo on HNAT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)
12 mo on HN8-bit computer update
11 mo on HN“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — Part 1
10 mo on HN[LIVE] How to Achieve Proper Grounding - Rick Hartley - Expert Live Training (US)
8 mo on HNI bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate
6 mo on HNWhat your Differential Pairs Wish You Knew with Rick Hartley - AltiumLive Keynote
7 mo on HNThe world's worst video card?
6 mo on HNThe Art of Making a Nixie Tube
6 mo on HNHow does a USB keyboard work?
5 mo on HNWatch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
6 mo on HNBlueHat IL 2019 - Andrew "bunnie" Huang - Supply Chain Security: "If I were a Nation State...”
6 mo on HNOld pinball machines are amazingly complex
5 mo on HNA Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable
4 mo on HNHow an Atomic Clock Really Works: Inside the HP 5061A Cesium Clock
5 mo on HNThe lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps
4 mo on HNElectric car chargers aren't chargers at all – EVSE Explained
4 mo on HNBritish Plugs Are Better Than All Other Plugs, And Here's Why
4 mo on HNHow a transistor works
4 mo on HNInside a Huge PCB Factory
3 mo on HNFun with ultracapacitors!!
3 mo on HNLED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish
3 mo on HN8-bit CPU control logic: Part 1
3 mo on HNThe Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name
3 mo on HNHow Electricity Actually Works
3 mo on HNHow To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound
3 mo on HNMaking a Full Bridge Rectifier
3 mo on HNWLW's 500,000 Watt Transmitter
3 mo on HNDesign Your Own Keyboard!
3 mo on HNThe rigs we've created for chipsynth MD's emulation.
3 mo on HNEEVblog #186 - Soldering Tutorial Part 3 - Surface Mount
2 mo on HNPulling Clear Images Directly Off Satellites | GOES-15,16,17 and Himawari 8 HRIT
2 mo on HNHomemade Transistor Demonstration
2 mo on HNHorrific USB power supply fault. (Electrocution risk.)
2 mo on HNTSP #133 - Keysight UXR 110GHz BW, 256GS/s, 10-bit Real-Time Oscilloscope Teardown & Experiments
2 mo on HNThe Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)
2 mo on HNEEVblog #555 - 555 Timer Kit
Also discussed on Hacker News (12)
Mentioned in HN threads about electronics & circuit design, though never formally recommended:
Listening radio with grass · EEVblog #1333 - Nuclear Diamond Self-Charging Battery DEBUNKED! · am radio tower power · EEVblog #646 - Gravity Detection Using A Frequency Counter! · Is USB Type-C ACTUALLY Stronger?? Durability Test · The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think! · Ambient Backscatter · 100 car batteries wired in parallel! · EEVblog #1001 - uBeam Ultrasonic Wireless Charging DEBUNKED! · Quasistatic Cavity Resonance for Ubiquitous Wireless Power Transfer · EEVblog #1107 - Shocking 4K BENQ Monitor Problem! · RTTY DEMO 012710.wmv