All items tagged with Car and Engine (12)

14-03-2010 | For as long as electronic cars don't rule the world, I'm a fan of Transonic Combustion's patented way to make gasoline-drinking cars more ef...

1-10-2007 | It all started in September last year. Since then over 40,000 man-hours have been invested on the solar car by Solar Team Twente. They have...

1-01-2007 | In the world of engine tuning, spanners and screwdrivers have been replaced by palmtops or PCs and flash programming routines. These days ev...

1-12-2005 | Miniature radio controlled cars are great fun for the armchair rally enthusiast but once the novelty has worn off or the car suffers a mecha...

1-05-2005 | In Part 4 of this course, we used the PC sound card to generate a variety of waveforms. In this instalment, we turn this around. Here wavefo...

1-04-2005 | Almost all modern computers have a sound card, either on the motherboard or on an expansion card. This card is used to convert digital data...

1-12-1998 | A starter motor immobilizer is an effective (but not certain) means of protecting your car against theft. It has the drawback that a wou...

1-07-1995 | This playful project demonstrates the operation of a small electric vehicle which is capable of tracking a line. Inexpensive and easy to b...

1-06-1991 | Getting a stepper motor to work properly invariably seems to require either a lot of discrete electronics, or an expensive dedicated integ...

1-09-1990 | The circuit described here is a car theft deterrent that locks the starting motor until a pre-programmed code is recognized.