| The CAN bus — officially known as Controller Area Network — allows connected devices to exchange short messages in an efficient way. Althoug...
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| The advent of the Internet of Things has also boosted research into alternative energy sources which allow energy to be converted into elect...
| The Peltier lamp offered by Elektor is a project with a surprising principle: power a LED reading lamp with the energy from one candle. The...
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| Before electric lighting became common in the early 20th century, candles and oil lamps were commonly used for illumination. Even a modern c...
| LED striplights can be bought in various lengths at ridiculously low prices and provide bling & glitz. Anyone can hang up a few of these and...
| This circuit exploits the unique ability of the LTC3129 and LTC3129-1 to start up and operate from an input power source as “weak” as 7.5 µW...
| Simple triangle-wave generators have a weakness in that the waveform of their output signal normally cannot be modified. The circuit pre...
| When in 1870 John Tyndall, an Irish physicist working in the USA, showed that light can be guided, he could not have foreseen that li...
| Many cars are not fitted with fog lights and, what is more, there is often no provision for them. However, since in most European and Nor...
| Diode lasers that operate from the near ultraviolet to well into the infra-red region are common place and used, among others, in optical...