Advent Calendar Day 1: Transistors

Spark Fun Electronics Via Flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/One of the many holiday traditions around the world is an Advent Calendar. Many of you probably have one in your home or office and you eagerly open each tiny door every day of December until Christmas to see what goodies lies behind it. I don’t have the creative skills to come up with my own physical San Jose Earthquakes calendar so I will be doing a digital version on this blog. Seems fitting for the capital of the Silicon Valley. So what lies behind the first door?

A TRANSISTOR

Dicklyon [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia CommonsWhat would San Jose be without the…