All items tagged with interface and RF (243)

1-03-2002 | Many electricity meters installed since the mid 1980’s are equipped with an IEC1107 compliant optical interface. This gives a convenient met...

1-01-2002 | Can’t even give away that hard disk drive on your redundant PC system? Why not use it as a portable drive? This interface adapter allows a s...

1-11-2001 | In recent issues we have regularly devoted attention to the DMX-512 system. Several construction projects have already been published, and m...

1-11-2001 | In situations where a PC is used as a dedicated controller the user-interface can often be simplified. Just a few input buttons together wit...

1-09-2001 | Model servos have improved greatly in the past few years and now offer greater torque and speed, so much so that they are increasingly being...

1-09-2001 | We’ve recently described the principle of DMX512-based remote control, which allows automated projectors or flood lights to be controlled on...

1-07-2001 | A temperature measurement system with up to eight distributed temperature sensors can be realised using only a single signalling lead. This...

1-07-2001 | Back in October 2000 we described a versatile I2C bus interface that plugged into the PC printer port. Nowadays the PC serial port is rarely...

1-06-2001 | Moving signs are a common enough sight today but off-the-shelf units are invariably expensive and somewhat inflexible. The six-character mod...

1-03-2001 | Although 8-bit operation is included in the IDE interface, most hard disk drives do not support this mode. If you nonetheless want to contro...