Thomas Scherer (397)

31-03-2016 | Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have managed to crack a problem that has dogged the nuclear power industry fo...

3-03-2016 | As components get ever smaller the control of industrial soldering processes become more critical. Researchers at Northeastern University in...

1-01-2016 | LEDs dominate the selection of lighting fixtures in home improvement centers now, and everywhere people know that LED lamps mean lower energ...

1-01-2016 | Some things taken for granted by the electronics pros are not entirely clear to enthusiasts. With LEDs, some facts need to be known if you w...

26-05-2015 | You have to be an electronics enthusiast to recognize the importance of this date in history: On April 19, 2015 we celebrated the 50th Anniv...

1-04-2014 | What’s an engineer to do when out on the weekly shop they pass by the Bargain Bin filled with a stash of LED tubes which replace conventiona...

1-10-2013 | It just so happened that on the last visit to my in-laws their electric doorbell had just stopped working. It is a wireless type I installed...

1-01-2013 | People building their own self-balancing electric scooters face the problem of determining unconditionally whether the rider is standing on...

1-12-2012 | This circuit refuses to be programmed by an AVRISP MKII programmer; but why?

1-12-2011 | In the September 2011 issue I recounted how I had witnessed the demise of two different LEDs both of which inexplicably began to flash on an...