More about RS232 (73)

| The decoder discussed in this article sits between the output of a weather-satellite receiver and a free RS232 port on your computer....

| The wave file player is yet another circuit that offers the prospect of several hours of enjoyable tinkering. The PC and the soldering iro...

| The circuit presented in this article enables you to build a software-controlled 8-channel analogue switching unit that will be hard to be...

| When in 1870 John Tyndall, an Irish physicist working in the USA, showed that light can be guided, he could not have foreseen that li...

| The Motorola 68HC11 microcontroller is packed with features and consequently requires very few parts to make a minimum system configuratio...

| Although the tester could hardly be simpler, it has a fixed place in the tool box of the designer.

| The isolator is intended to provide electrical isolation between a computer and the equipment connected to its serial port. For instance,...

| The circuit, which consists of only a few gates and a latched shift register; is eminently suitable for driving several outputs via a two...

| Although a PC can be equipped with four RS232 serial ports, only two of these are available on most machines. Worse, most laptops have ju...

| Here are our recommended tuning tips for different parts of the hardware, bios and Windows 95.