| Now and again something goes amiss in a circuit: one or more components overheat, and the circuit board becomes partly charred or burnt. Suc...
| Now and again something goes amiss in a circuit: one or more components overheat, and the circuit board becomes partly charred or burnt. Suc...
| Occasionally it seems there’s no alternative to prying a component off a printed circuit board. When a repair job is on hand involving the r...
| LC-displays do not come particularly cheap in electronics retail. This is particularly true for graphic displays. If the size of the display...
| In some cases I2C signals need to be level-converted if they are exchanged between (sections of) logic systems operating at different supply...
| Many PC motherboards (perhaps most of them, in fact) are fitted with a connector for an infrared communication port. That connector is gener...
| The edeFT639 is an 8-pin chip that will control five servos through one 2400-baud serial line. As you can see from the schematic, the only e...
| The big day is 1 July 2006. From then on, use of lead in electronic circuitry will be prohibited by the Restriction of Hazardous Substances...
| From time to time you may come across a unit of measure that’s completely unfamiliar. It also happens that the name sounds vaguely familiar,...
| IrDA sure looks like an attractive medium for conveying data across small distances. Unfortunately, the associated hardware generally causes...
| In many projects use is made of alphanumeric LCDs that are driven internally by Hitachi’s industry-standard HD44780 controller. These displa...