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A personal engineering lab exploring electronics, embedded systems, edge computing, and high-performance computing through hands-on projects and measured experiments.

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EXP-01431 AUG 2026

MOSFET Switching Loss vs. Gate Resistance

How much switching energy does each additional ohm of gate resistance cost? Measured turn-on/turn-off losses across five gate resistor values.

ELECTRONICSCOMPLETE

BUILD-00728 AUG 2026

Adjustable Linear Bench Supply

A 0–18 V, 2 A adjustable linear supply with current limiting, built to replace a wall-wart collection and to learn analog power design.

ELECTRONICSDEBUGGING

BUILD-00415 AUG 2026

Breadboard Computer

An 8-bit breadboard computer built module by module - clock, registers, ALU, control logic - to understand computer architecture from wires up.

ELECTRONICSCOMPUTEACTIVE

RESEARCH / ASSAYS

The highest-rigor work: explicit methodology, provenance, reproducibility.

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