| On many cars, the boot light will not go out until the lid is properly closed. It is all too easy when unloading the car, to leave the lid a...
| On many cars, the boot light will not go out until the lid is properly closed. It is all too easy when unloading the car, to leave the lid a...
| The steady progress in the field of microcontrollers and microprocessors has produced new, powerful devices which come in standard IC...
| Microcontrollers in your toaster, washing machine, the Mars Explorer or a Formula 1 race car; these beasts are literally all around us...
| All microcontrollers have to be programmed, be it by means of a 'mask' during their production, or by means of a special programmer. I...
| Because of their inertia, power consumption, contact wear, and often size, relays are not really suitable for switching alternating volta...
| Build this small add-on unit and put an end to the (often gross) inaccuracy of the real-time clock that ticks in your PC. Complete with a...
| Integrating an EPROM emulator into a microcontroller system gives tlexibility while reducing cost. It also makes the 80C535 based processo...
| The aim of the design of this 'zener diode' is to obtain a fast voltage regulator that can provide high currents. The circuit is based on...
| The PC may not transmit characters to the counter while this is busy executing the command string. Any character, in particular US, has t...
| This month's instalment explains how the frequency meter can communicate wtth a PC via an RS232 sertal link. Obviously, to be able to wrt...