Even stranger is the fact that the clock does NOT appear to actually need the -1.5V because it seems to function perfectly without it, yet clearly it's using it for something because the battery ...

Some people just want to have their cake and eat it too, but very few of us ever get to pull it off. [Erich Styger] has, ...

Just about every electronic device has some silicon semiconductors inside these days—from transistors to diodes to integrated ...