Jan Buiting (503)

1-07-2008 | Old germanium transistors like the OC171 and later AF devices carry a ‘terrible secret’ inside their TO-7 metal can. If you switch on a ‘dea...

1-06-2008 | The FUP1A PMR test unit had four frequency ranges: 68-88 MHz; 80-95 MHz; 95-110 MHz and 140-175 MHz. The later FUP1D came with the 420-475 M...

1-06-2008 | Many ‘legacy’ peripherals, microcontroller projects and older boards are left abandoned because they have no USB connectivity and therefore...

1-05-2008 | Out of Belgrade comes a vast line of microcontroller development tools and related goodies that’s sure to make microcontroller geeks drool a...

1-04-2008 | This project employs a Freescale Coldfire micro and associated PC software that allows remote switching of electrical loads across networks...

1-04-2008 | ‘Formant’ is without doubt one of the biggest names from the Elektor history. The mega project goes back a good thirty years, was forgotten...

1-02-2008 | Elektor in 1984 saw a niche for a disco lights controller that was unusual and novel in not being limited to dull, fixed light patterns. In...

1-01-2008 | Although I have never forgotten this blockbuster from the old days I was delighted to find, in a storage locker at the former Elektor premis...

1-12-2007 | Philips Telecommunication Industries in their 1977 product information sheet write that the SXA is a solid-state VHF/UHF personal FM radiote...

1-11-2007 | In 1963, after about two years of administrative preparation, a lot of telexing, white papering and contract tendering, the Dutch PTT offici...