Jens Nickel (182)

1-11-2010 | After you’ve drafted the schematic, there comes a step in the design process that many electronics enthusiasts and professionals don’t enjoy...

1-11-2010 | An Elektor issue with a focus on sensors is hardly complete without an article on image processing. However, this highly interesting field i...

1-10-2010 | Microcontroller evaluation kits are a wonderful resource. Those supplied by chip manufacturers are usually reasonably priced as development...

1-10-2010 | Advances in high power LED technology has made it possible to shrink the size and price of LCD projectors. Makers of so-called pico-projecto...

1-04-2010 | Last month we took a look at the problem of dusty pots and wafer switches. This provoked an email from a long time Elektor reader (from issu...

1-04-2010 | February was chilly but we were pleased to extend a warm welcome to some visitors who dropped by to see us. Remco Krul of National Instrumen...

1-04-2010 | We receive a steady stream of questions from readers who have designed interesting circuits. How do we decide which projects make it into th...

1-04-2010 | Back in January we mentioned that we were working on the design of a new CO2 meter. This one is specifically designed for use in cars where...

1-03-2010 | Developers of embedded systems should be aware that there is a wide range of open source programs, programming tools and hardware platforms...

1-03-2010 | The DMX LED lamp controller described here uses a TI MSP430 microcontroller to support DMX bus communication and generate PWM control signal...