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1-06-2009 | Destructive) recycling is undoubtedly necessary for future generations to suffer as little as possible from present-day excesses in consumpt...

19-03-2009 | Energy consumption in the outdoor lighting sector is roughly equivalent to the power consumption of 18 million households. Modernising these...

1-02-2009 | So just what exactly is Arduino? At first sight, Arduino is a small microcontroller board with a USB port that comes in several models. Ther...

1-02-2009 | One area that many model train enthusiasts have never been totally happy with is the lighting of coaches. Until now. The lighting controller...

1-01-2009 | Here we present a 3D display of LEDs, each of which can be controlled individually.This magnificent cube has at its heart an Atmel AVR micro...

1-11-2008 | We live in a colourful environment these days. Everything is in colour: TV, advertising billboards, mobile phone displays and LEDs. Philips...

1-09-2008 | Having treated himself to a new bicycle fitted out with all mod cons including a shiny hub dynamo, the author was looking forward to many mi...

1-09-2008 | Overcoming gravity is an age-old dream, which we can’t expect to see fulfilled anytime soon. However, we can come closer to making it realit...

10-07-2008 | Can Europe lead the world into a “third industrial revolution” – one that will take us away from disruptive centralised power systems into a...

1-07-2008 | As we all know, LEDs are dimmed by altering the current flowing through them, not the voltage. We achieve this effect in this circuit by usi...