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1-06-2001 | Moving signs are a common enough sight today but off-the-shelf units are invariably expensive and somewhat inflexible. The six-character mod...

1-06-2001 | Now we come to the mechanical assembly of the PCB drilling machine. The components come ready-made: all that is needed is a little care in f...

1-05-2001 | The controller board contains all the electronics for the plate motor and four drill arms. As a matter of course, the board population is in...

1-04-2001 | Our PCB drilling machine provides a link between a Windows PC and the motors and solenoids of the machine itself: a microcontroller integrat...

1-04-2001 | Ever since IBM-compatible PCs have been available, a new bus system has been introduced each time there was a major development step. The PC...

1-03-2001 | In previous articles in this series we have described an A/D converter based on a counter. A ‘real’ A/D converter, however, converts a volta...

1-03-2001 | Elektor Electronics is proud to present an unprecedented home construction project: a CNC PCB drilling machine which is economical, accurate...

1-02-2001 | The Dallas Semiconductor DS1621 thermometer/thermostat IC can be programmed and read via a two-wire bus. Instead of using a full-blown PC fo...

1-02-2001 | In the previous instalment we measured capacitances and resistances. You may have wondered if this was all worth the effort, when accurate a...

1-02-2001 | The development of a PCI based expansion card is relatively complex and usually needs a large investment of time and money before success is...