Hello neurodivergent comrades and allied neurotypical comrades! This month's mega-thread is all about electronics. This includes everything from the macro scale with computers and circuitry, all the way down to the atomic level with things like p-type and n-type semiconductors, as well as the math side of things with topics like Boolean logic and sequential logic.

As always, feel free to completely ignore the theme and post what you want! We’re just happy to have you!

If you want to talk about something related to this month's theme but can’t think of anything to say, then here’s some questions to try and answer to get you started:

• How has your neurodivergence effected the way you use computers and other electronic systems?
• What sort of electronic system do you commonly use in your day to day life?
• Have you ever had to solve binary logic problems, and if so, what are your thoughts on it?
• Have you even tried to build an electronic system (computer, circuit board, etc.), and if so, how did it go?
• If you're a gamer, what are your computer's specs?

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Historical Info About the Device in the Picture Above:

The picture for this month's thread is of the very first transistor. Created in 1947 by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain while working under William Shockley at Bell Labs, it's invention marked the very beginning of modern digital computing, allowing computer engineers to move away from massive vacuum tube computational components in favor of much faster and much more miniaturizable semiconductors. For this achievement, Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley would go on to collectively receive the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.

In 1959, two more Bell Labs scientists, Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng, would further refine transistors with the creation of the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), which has gone on to become the most widely used type of transistor.

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