California’s Open-Carry Ban: Gun Law Struck Down as Unconstitutional

Circuit rules California’s open-carry gun ban unconstitutional under Second Amendment, citing Supreme Court’s Bruen precedent ...

Second Amendment Protects Right to Open Carry, Ninth Circuit Panel Holds (2-1)

A short excerpt from today's very long opinion in Baird v. Bonta by Judge Lawrence VanDyke, joined by Judge Kenneth Lee: ...
EDN

Measure open-circuited cables using a multimeter

You can use a multimeter with capacitance-measurement capability to measure the length of wire or cable to an open circuit. The capacitance of a pair of wires (or a wire to a shield) is directly ...
Hackaday

Open-source Circuit Simulation

For simple circuits, it’s easy enough to grab a breadboard and start putting it together. Breadboards make it easy to check your circuit for mistakes before soldering together a finished product. But ...
T&D

BGE's Open-Circuit Detection Protects Substations

BGE reviews several alternatives for a battery open-circuit monitoring device to protect from a dc supply single point of failure. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued Order 867 on Jan. 23, ...
Nature

Impact of mesoscale order on open-circuit voltage in organic solar cells

Structural order in organic solar cells is paramount: it reduces energetic disorder, boosts charge and exciton mobilities, and assists exciton splitting. Owing to spatial localization of electronic ...
Electronic Design

Simple Current Limiter Protects Open-Collector Circuit

Open-collector outputs are useful for transmitting buffered digital/pulse signals to the external world when high drive is needed. In harsh operating environments like automotive systems, however, ...