{"id":5692,"date":"2015-02-24T17:27:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=5692"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:14:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:14:56","slug":"back-to-basics-with-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/back-to-basics-with-transistors\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Basics with Transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With any upcoming projects you may be doing, will you be using transistors? A few months ago, Brandon <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/index.php\/transistor-basics\/\">wrote a post<\/a> detailing the basics of transistors &#8212; what they are, how they work, how they can be used, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/transistors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2970 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/transistors.jpg\" alt=\"transistors\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/transistors.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/transistors-225x168.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To get your hands on some transistors and other goodies, you can buy the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/Products\/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,842,845&amp;Prod=APK\">Analog Parts Kit<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/Products\/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,892,1233&amp;Prod=CHIPKIT-STARTERKIT\">chipKIT Starter Kit<\/a>\u00a0(depending on what you&#8217;re wanting to do), and you can find projects to be done with them here on the blog or on Instructables.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out Brandon&#8217;s old post and let us know what fun things you&#8217;ve made!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-5692 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='5692' data-nonce='4d1b41d1d7' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-5692 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-5692 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='5692' data-nonce='4d1b41d1d7' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-5692 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-5692 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With any upcoming projects you may be doing, will you be using transistors? A few months ago, Brandon wrote a post detailing the basics of transistors &#8212; what they are, how they work, how they can be used, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1563],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4464],"class_list":["post-5692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/transistors.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4464,"user_id":7,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amber_mear","display_name":"Amber Mear","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0fc56ab4035f79884675bde2a948e84c1d14dd33b730b4c142dde6f1a962395?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}