| Need to turn on a device by placing an object on a surface? This low-power IR switch can do the trick.
| Need to turn on a device by placing an object on a surface? This low-power IR switch can do the trick.
| If the November 1981 issue of Elektor was quickly sold out, that was unlikely due to its extravagant cover illustration but rather because i...
| In the previous edition, I met Walter Arkesteijn, not only as an enthusiastic entrepreneur but also as an Elektor aficionado and an inspirer...
| Elektor's Jan Buiting entered the lab of the Eindhoven-based InnoFaith Beauty Sciences to discover how their high-end equipment for skin ana...
| The SensorTile.box is a small battery-powered box packed with sensors that communicates over Bluetooth. A smartphone app lets you control it...
| The promise of the smart home continually seems to be just out of reach, but all that changes thanks to a collaboration between FTDI and Bri...
| Before you start working with moisture sensors, consider the following tips about sensor selection and sensor integration. Once you are fami...
| In electronics, ideas, crude sketches and ‘triggers’ can prove more valuable than turnkey circuits. Walter Arkesteijn explains how he applie...
| Capacitive touch interfaces really took hold after their success in the Apple iPod with its rotary wheel. Since then, touch buttons have mad...
| A resolver is a transformer with a fixed input winding and two rotating output windings placed at 90 degrees to each other. It can measure a...