| The use of and research into, artificial electric light sources to stimulate plant growth dates to the second half of the 19th century. It c...
| The use of and research into, artificial electric light sources to stimulate plant growth dates to the second half of the 19th century. It c...
| How much power does my connected device use? Does its sleep mode conform to the manufacturer's documentation? How long will the CR2032 batte...
| In the September 2011 issue Elektor published a USB/serial converter that was remarkable not only for its great technical characteristics, b...
| Elektor software developer and lab worker Mathias Claußen was tasked to develop a control for the FM radio on the Raspberry Pi [1] using a t...
| In industrial and consumer electronics, the use of thyristors and triacs is known to corrupt the AC grid voltage to a degree due to harmonic...
| Here we present a direct-reading audio spectrometer using a microcontroller, a graphic equalizer chip, and not much more. Using seven vertic...
| A clock that doesn’t keep good time is annoying. This is especially true if it’s an alarm clock; it may look nice on the bedside table but i...
| The old-school semiconductor device family called "Silicon-controlled rectifiers" or SCRs in short include thyristors and triacs. As opposed...
| Those tiny boards with Wi-Fi-capable ESP32 controllers are a great starting point to realize all sorts of projects. That's what Rainer Krugm...
| The quality of the air we breathe should be of deep concern to all of us. We all know that airborne dust particles keep asthma sufferers awa...