| With the Festive Season approaching rapidly, many of you will be thinking hard how to give this coming Christmas a very personal touch...
| With the Festive Season approaching rapidly, many of you will be thinking hard how to give this coming Christmas a very personal touch...
| The microcontroller-driven light barrier operates with two infra-red senders which, if set up correctly provide a measure of directivity.
| This article describes a lights switch which is operated by moving your hand in front of it. This is achieved by detecting infrared lig...
| The Type HA7210 IC from Harris Semiconductor is an integrated low power crystal oscillator that can be programmed extremely to generate...
| The Type TSL230 IC is a programmable light-to-frequency converter it is a single-chip combination of a silicon photodiode and a current-t...
| The ignition warning light in a car indicates whether the battery is being charged or not (and indeed whether it is connected properl...
| Flexible tubelight units containing many vividly coloured lights are very popular ornaments these days, and they are seen in many shop...
| The article describes a remote control (send/receive) system that does not use infra-red light, but visible light. It is particularly...
| Digital systems need an interface to communicate with the outside world. Since only voltage drops can be used by the hardware, auxiliary...
| The presenr circuit, consisting of only a handful of cornponents, enables a rnains-operated lamp to flash at Intervals of about one seco...