| SMDs are nice and compact, but their small dimensions also have some drawbacks. You can hardly tell different types of passive components ap...
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| Low cost multimeters do not include a milliohm measurement range and specialist equipment is expensive. The simple circuit described here al...
| Virtually every computer these days is equipped with a reasonably decent sound card. In addition to its audio uses it can also be used for m...
| It is not generally known that it is possible to ascertain the extent of charge of a battery with a standard digital voltmeter. It does not...
| This temperature logger is a device which continuously records two temperatures for subsequent analysis on a PC. Thanks to its I2C bus it ca...
| 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...
| Light-sensitive sensors with characteristics similar to those of the human eye are most often implemented using photoresistors or special (a...
| It is often desirable to know how hot a part is. The usual method is to use a thermometer to measure the temperature, but this may not alway...
| Often you find yourself in the position of needing to wind your own coil for a project, or maybe you come across an unmarked coil in the jun...
| Microsoft Office 97 includes a complete programming language called Visual BASIC for Applications (VBA). With this interpreter, which is lar...