Thomas Scherer (397)

1-10-2008 | The cathode ray tube (CRT) has made way for the LCD and digital has replaced analogue technology. This trend is also evident in the design o...

1-09-2008 | Having treated himself to a new bicycle fitted out with all mod cons including a shiny hub dynamo, the author was looking forward to many mi...

1-07-2008 | Diodes make admirable rectifiers and are simple and economical, but unfortunately they also exhibit forward voltage drop, and hence also pow...

1-07-2008 | This circuit was developed as part of the current Elektor AVR-ATM18 project series. Troubled by a nagging feeling that a circuit is not a pr...

1-07-2008 | The current consumption of the amplifier in an active TV antenna is typically between 20 mA and 50 mA. This current (at +5 V) can easily be...

1-06-2008 | In November 2007 this magazine launched a competition under the title ‘The Challenge’. The task was to power a laptop in an unconventional w...

1-06-2008 | On the cover of an old copy of Elektor in large print it states: ‘Equipment is only as good as its power supply’. Even though that particula...

1-05-2008 | Two events triggered the conception of this AVR programmer: the feedback received on USBprog from Elektor, October 2007 and a series of arti...

1-04-2008 | Nowadays audio broadcast signals are compressed and put into IP packets that are ‘streamed’, and you can access every Internet radio program...

1-03-2008 | Harald Kipp first became interested in Open Source software and in those early days he was happy to look on it as a hobby interest rather th...