| Back in 1980 Elektor challenged its readership to come up with circuits and projects housed in a beer, soft drink or sardine can. Conceivabl...
| Back in 1980 Elektor challenged its readership to come up with circuits and projects housed in a beer, soft drink or sardine can. Conceivabl...
| The fan runs constantly in many PCs, which may not even be necessary. A simple controller circuit can regulate the fan speed according to...
| The term ‘PID controller’ normally brings to mind an analogue controller circuit with a couple of opamps. This article shows how such...
| A linear circuit consisting of an input buffer, IC1a, and output-scaling amplifier, IC1b, two zener diodes, D1 and D2, and several other c...
| Many hobbyists seem to harbour a desire to control stepper motors from a PC. Unfortunately, complete stepper motor interfaces that can com...
| If a PIC is used for example in a timer application, such as a programmable clock timer, the majority of the circuit is taken up by the us...
| In many instances, suspect television receivers and monitors can be tested with a simple test pattern generator as described in this a...
| To make a certain musical instrument in a group stand out, a so-called presence filter is normally used. Unfortunately, the types usuall...
| There are systems in which it is imperative that the supply voltage of, say, a motor, always has the correct polarity.
| Simple triangle-wave generators have a weakness in that the waveform of their output signal normally cannot be modified. The circuit pre...