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1-12-2007 | LEDs are used more and more in motor vehicles, replacing the standard incandescent lamps because they are more energy efficient and have a m...

1-11-2007 | From 1970 to 1996, Jean-Claude Leny was head of Framatome, the builder of nuclear power stations which later gave birth to Areva NP. Now ret...

1-11-2007 | China is well on its way to becoming a major player in the global energy market. The EU should define a strategy of cooperation, says Profes...

1-10-2007 | Many readers who are familiar with the PICmicro range of products will be aware that several of these wonderful devices have a USB port alre...

1-09-2007 | Elektor September 2007 comes with a board containing an LED booster circuit which you can try out for yourself. Although tiny, the board con...

1-07-2007 | Een schakeling die ontbrekende pulsen detecteert is in de wereld van de robots onmisbaar. Als aan de schakeling van figuur 1 regelmatig puls...

1-07-2007 | Many robotic applications require a sensor to measure light levels. The conventional approach as shown in Figure 1 uses an A/D converter to...

1-05-2007 | Although the acronym ‘LED’ has stood for ‘light-emitting diode’ since the 1960’s, LEDs have only recently started to emit significant amount...

1-04-2007 | Here’s a playful yet educational application of a Freescale MC9S08 microcontroller. It continues from last month’s Attack of the SpYder arti...

1-02-2007 | The light output that can be obtained using LEDs has increased by four or five orders of magnitude over the last couple of decades. What is...