How a transistor works
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 90% confidenceA careful, first-principles explanation that grounds all of his later digital-logic videos.
What you'll learn
Ben Eater explains how a transistor works, from semiconductor doping to the P-N junction and amplification.
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