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| Many microcontrollers these days are powered from 3.3 V (or oven lower voltages) instead of the old, familiar 5 V. Lowering the dissipation...

| The circuit shown here uses a depletion-mode MOSFET to implement the Low Dropout (LDO) function.

| The display shown here employs an LDR which causes the LEDs to dim during the dark hours, and light at slowly increasing brightness with day...

| Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, was launched in 1957. It captured the attention of the entire world with the eerie beeps it trans...

| Christmas decoration has a very simple design. It is based on a type 4060 digital counter (IC1). This IC has a built-in oscillator with a fr...

| Has a channel from your stereo failed, or you don’t hear anything any more from your headphones from your MP3 player? It could be a broken w...

| The domestic use of WLANs has grown rapidly as DSL routers with built-in wireless Ethernet have become available, and now it is easy to use...

| The situation is a familiar one: in a quiz, whoever presses (or, in practice, thumps) their button first lights their lamp and is given the...

| This articled describes a method of pre-cleaning ROHS compliant boards to remove silver oxide deposits from copper pads and tracks.

| In the last few months we’ve received four dozen entries from seven countries, putting the international jury in quite a sweat. The quality...