| In an effort to show that programming and technology is not always difficult and can even be fun, last month the BBC has started to distribu...
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| At Elektor we are quite used to receiving badly addressed and/or labeled parcels accompanied by a scrap of paper with a cryptic text, and so...
| Competition is fierce among microcontroller manufacturers. One of the reasons is that putting an MCU together has become pretty easy: just l...
| Quad Flatpack No leads (QFN) packages offer at least one advantage over Ball Grid Array (BGA) packages: because the electrical connections a...
| GPS receivers have found their way into many amateur projects thanks to their output signal consisting of simple human-readable text strings...
| Internet is great for finding stuff. This is possible because the users (meaning you and me) stock enormous amounts of data online that is e...
| Ohm’s Law is taught to (and immediately forgotten by) most children of around 14, 15 years old. Georg Simon Ohm, born in Germany in 1789, pu...
| The acquisition of Atmel by Microchip has been approved by Atmel’s stockholders, which completes the takeover from a financial point of view...
| The quality of the AC powerline voltage is something that worries more people than you would think. It is said that in most countries the li...
| New old stock (NOS) component supplies can be interesting if you are looking for cheap or obsolete components, but since such parts are old...