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.
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5 mo on HNWatch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
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
3 mo on HNThe Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name
3 mo on HNHow Electricity Actually Works
3 mo on HNEEVblog #1132 - The 3 Cent Microcontroller!
2 mo on HNThe Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)
2 mo on HNHow Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings
2 mo on HNDefeating Microwave Weapons! - Part 1
2 mo on HNThe simple, clever sensor behind automatic windshield wipers
2 mo on HNWhy build an entire computer on breadboards?
2 mo on HNHow does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?📡☄🖥
2 mo on HNTeardown of an IKEA Koppla USB power supply.
1 mo on HNWhy it's not possible to synchronize turn signals (but also absolutely is)
1 mo on HNIs 5G Spelling Our DOOM?! How EM Waves Can Hurt
1 mo on HNHow Wrong Is VERITASIUM? A Lamp and Power Line Story
1 mo on HNThe step-by-step, mechanical logic of old pinball machines
1 mo on HNThe most deadly project on the Internet
1 mo on HNMechanical circuits: electronics without electricity
1 mo on HNTSP #183 - Starlink Dish Phased Array Design, Architecture & RF In-depth Analysis
1 mo on HNIs Starlink A Secret Radar Constellation?
1 mo on HNLines of Light: How Analog Television Works
1 mo on HNEEVblog #632 - Solar Roadways Are RUBBISH!
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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