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Can Someone Please Switch Off The Internet?
September 2, 2019 by Clemens Valens

Can Someone Please Switch Off The Internet?

While doing some research on the 50-year-old famous voltage regulator IC µA723 I made an unexpected discovery.
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How to Make Arduino Portable and Future Proof
August 22, 2019 by Clemens Valens

How to Make Arduino Portable and Future Proof

When you have to use the Arduino IDE on a public or university computer on which you are not allowed to install anything, you may not be allowed to install any board packages or libraries. Making the Arduino IDE portable solves this problem.
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Elektor Labs Summer Contest 2019 –10 Days Left To Show Us Your Home Lab
August 20, 2019 by Clemens Valens

Elektor Labs Summer Contest 2019 –10 Days Left To Show Us Your Home Lab

The 2019 Summer Contest ends on August 31 at midnight CET, so you have about ten days left to post a picture of your home lab at the ElektorLabs website and get a chance to win an Elektor e-Shop voucher worth €100!
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Build a Mini CNC Machine from Recycled DVD Players
August 15, 2019 by Clemens Valens

Build a Mini CNC Machine from Recycled DVD Players

Take two DVD players, use one as a plotting platform moving forward and backward, and mount the other vertically on it to provide left and right displacements. Add a simple RC servo to it to move the tool up and down and away you go.
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How to Choose Between High-side and Low-side Switching
August 13, 2019 by Clemens Valens

How to Choose Between High-side and Low-side Switching

The principles of operation of high-side and low-side load switching are easy to grasp, but when do you prefer one method over the other?
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How to Calculate an “LED Resistor” – Part 2
August 7, 2019 by Clemens Valens

How to Calculate an “LED Resistor” – Part 2

Knowing how to calculate an LED current limiting resistor is one thing, taking into account all other sorts of parameters as well is another.
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How to Calculate an “LED Resistor” – Part 1
August 7, 2019 by Clemens Valens

How to Calculate an “LED Resistor” – Part 1

Many LEDs, those highly popular Light Emitting Diodes, die prematurely because they are improperly used by people who know little to nothing about electronics. Let's try to stop the massacre.
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Review: Detect Radiation with the MightyOhm Geiger Counter Kit
July 31, 2019 by Clemens Valens

Review: Detect Radiation with the MightyOhm Geiger Counter Kit

The MightyOhm Geiger Counter is a device for detecting beta and gamma radiation levels. Because radiation is so harmful, you may want to keep an eye on the environment you live in and invest in a radiation detector like the MightyOhm Geiger Counter reviewed here.
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How to Kickstart a Multivibrator in LTspice
July 30, 2019 by Clemens Valens

How to Kickstart a Multivibrator in LTspice

Simulating oscillators can be problematic as they often won't start in the simulator. The problem is due to the simulator that assumes a perfect evironment without noise and interference. Here's a kluge that might help you out.
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Microsoft and OpenAI in Billion Dollar Partnership to Develop AGI
July 29, 2019 by Clemens Valens

Microsoft and OpenAI in Billion Dollar Partnership to Develop AGI

Artificial Intelligence is where all the money goes these days. Founded at the end of 2015, OpenAI started out with a capital of one billion dollars. This month Microsoft decided to throw in yet another cool billion.
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