| Texas Instruments supplies handy USB evaluation sticks with related software for its low-cost MSP430 controllers. Unfortunately the I/O faci...
| Texas Instruments supplies handy USB evaluation sticks with related software for its low-cost MSP430 controllers. Unfortunately the I/O faci...
| Programmable calculators used to be exotic, but now they are standard equipment in almost every school or polytechnic. The TI-83 (Plus) and...
| Decibit rely on proven technology: Atmel’s ATMega168 microcontroller in combination with an nRF24L01 transceiver chip from Nordic Semiconduc...
| Radio frequency identification (commonly known as RFID) is a generic term used to describe a system that transmits the identity (in the form...
| In this article we describe a low-cost yet reliable radio module that can be used with the ATM18 test system to build remote control and rem...
| This module provides a simple user interface for extending microcontroller-based circuits. Graphics and text display commands can be sent to...
| Happy with the good response I got to two previous Retronics stories about little known valves like the Dekatron and E1T, I decided to dig o...
| We live in a colourful environment these days. Everything is in colour: TV, advertising billboards, mobile phone displays and LEDs. Philips...
| The instrument described in this article combines the functions of a sweep frequency generator (‘wobbulator’) and a spectrum analyser. In th...
| Controlling a computer using the power of thought alone is less far-fetched than you might believe. The easy part is to measure precisely th...