| Sure, Elektor presented numerous projects and Retronics flashbacks on 'vintage’ display devices like Nixie tubes, Numitrons, Dekatrons, VFD...
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| I was asked to evaluate the Weller WT-1014 and share my findings with our readers. Let me be frank upfront: I'm not a Weller fan. There is n...
| t is already about 120 years ago that the so-called "War of the Currents" was decided in favour of the alternating current system of Tesla a...
| It’s not been that long since every electronics hobbyist wished they could afford a programmer for PROMs, EPROMs, GALS and microcontrollers....
| These days, most microcontrollers with flash program memory can be programmed in-circuit. But it wasn't that long ago that every electronics...
| It does happen occasionally that software stops working, particularly when that software has been around for quite a few years and doesn’t...
| The manual construction of prototypes with SMD components has become quite a challenge. It is no longer possible to inspect the result with...
| What can go wrong when fitting a component on a circuit board? All sorts of things of course, but in this case the cause turned out to be re...
| Building prototype boards with SMD components by hand is no easy task, and with modern tiny components the results are impossible to inspect...
| Of course, you need a good deal of additional circuitry to safely measure the voltages and currents involved. With a microcontroller and the...