My TGIMBOEJ Exchange
TGIMBOEJ, The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk is a progressive lending repository of electronic components. An open collaborative project, TGIMBOEJ can be seen as a cross between P2P file sharing and a flea market, an internet meme in physical form. It arrives full of wonderful (and possibly useless) components, but you will surely find some treasures to keep. You will be inspired to look through your own stuff and find more “electronic junk” that can be donated to the box before it is passed on again. And on and on and on. There are several incarnations of TGIMBOEJ being passed around the US and some parts of the world.
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Basic Hobby Electronics Vocabulary Part 2 of 4 (D-G)
Digital Circuit: A circuit in which inputs and outputs have only two possible states: low (0) or high (1).
Diode: A two-terminal electronic device that allows current to flow in only one direction.
Direct Current (DC): Current that flows across a material in one direction only.
Disc Capacitor: A type of capacitor that has low capacitance and is used mostly in high frequency circuits. Disc capacitors are not polarized.
Electrolytic Capacitor: A type of capacitor that has high capacitance and is used mostly in low frequency circuits. Electrolytic capacitors are polarized.
Electronics: The science and technology concerned with and based on electricity and its applications.
Farad (F): The unit of measure for capacitance.
Ground: A common name for the reference point in an electrical circuit at which the measured voltage is taken to be zero.
