Jim engineering student at RIT Jim Heaney has created a new binary decoder kit which he has launched via Kickstarter. The project has already raised its required pledge goal thanks to nearly 100 ...

In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...

Do you know how to read binary codes? Pretty impressive if you do, since they’re a computer’s language. Binary coding is a system of counting that boils down to two digits—one (1) and zero (0) that ...

This is a guest post by Olger Groen. If you would like to write for ExtremeCircuits, then drop us an email via contact form or simply comment. A long time ago when a parallel printer port was the ...

Gray codes, also known as reflected binary codes, offer a clever way to minimize errors when digital signals transition between states. By ensuring that only one bit changes at a time, they simplify ...