| Almost everyone has encountered a PIC microcontroller by Microchip at some point in their electronics adventures. Let’s take a look at the P...
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| How do you receive RF signals like FM radio or traditional broadcast television? Since this is Elektor it’s much more interesting to use a d...
| Today’s Peculiar Part is inspired by a Twitter post I saw that had a picture of a nuclear event detector. I had never seen one before and my...
| Bandgap voltage references are a great and easy to use accurate reference when you need them. But what about when a reference’s stability ov...
| I’ve talked about different types of diodes in previous Peculiar Parts instalments because there just seems to be so many unique types made...
| Do you remember the classic video game Pong? I certainly do but didn’t give it much thought until Elektor reader Antoni Magre emailed me and...
| Tektronix needed a way to display data on the CRT for their 7000 series analogue oscilloscopes but it was a challenge because the initial os...
| Today we have lots of options for storing information electronically like SRAM, DRAM, Flash and EEPROM. Random access memories (RAM) like SR...
| Sometimes circuits need to be isolated from each other for safety reasons, noise reduction or even to simplify a circuit function. An early...
| Coulometers are almost everywhere, quietly measuring the coulombs going in and out of battery packs and estimating the remaining battery cap...