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1-07-2012 | Fitting a bike with a rear light that stays on even when stationary is both useful and interesting — especially when it uses a circuit as si...

1-04-2010 | SMDs are nice and compact, but their small dimensions also have some drawbacks. You can hardly tell different types of passive components ap...

1-12-2009 | In our earlier encounter with the Embedded Development Platform (EDP) from RS Components published in the December 2008 issue it was already...

1-11-2009 | As far as electronic components are concerned, going out to do a bit of shopping is a thing of the past. Now you can order almost everything...

1-07-2009 | Gadgets can be very useful to assist the task of placing components in printed circuit boards. Some people clamp the PCB in a small vice, ei...

1-03-2009 | The city of Shenzhen is a real world centre for the production of electronic appliances and has a huge electronic components marketplace. Th...

1-01-2008 | For the first time in the Modding & Tweaking series we present a project that is not based around a microcontroller. Instead, we look at an...

1-07-2006 | Searching for components can be difficult, particularly in case of newly announced types and types made by unknown manufacturers. A few tips...

1-04-2006 | This is the first instalment of an FPGA course based on the versatile FPGA unit and associated prototyping board described in the last issue...

1-02-2006 | Newcomers to this magazine quite often send us emails with lots of questions about the component choice for projects described in the magazi...