| We continue our exploration of the uTracer 3+ vacuum tube curve tracer kit from DOS4EVER with considerations on tools and components, then e...
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| Welcome to a new mini series on Elektor e-zine. Like many of you I have been hunting for ages for a real tube tester like the high-end ones...
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| Although the theremin was invented nearly 100 years ago, the instrument still has enthusiastic fans. It is played entirely without physical...
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| The Tektronix 570 Characteristic-Curve Tracer introduced in 1955 draws pretty graphs of a vacuum tube's plate current (vertical axis) agains...
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| I’ve written about quite a few different types of vacuum tubes in previous installments so let’s continue that theme and look at vacuum flor...
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| In my SHARE opening words in the previous edition I shared with you a small project by translator Kees de Groot: a Nixie clock without Nixie...
| I knew it had to happen some day: the Raspberry Pi goes back in time by the addition of a vacuum tube. Pi2Media (a division of Pi2Design) h...
| In January 2010 Elektor published a magic eye, an electron-ray indicator tube, to visualize the processing charge of the CPU in a PC. The gl...
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| When you think of vacuum tubes, I bet you the first thing you think of is a bulky, heavy audio amplifier with large glowing glass tubes humm...
| Johan Basse Bergqvist’s book The Bottle Builder is secure on the bookshelf of all audio engineers at Elektor Labs! It presents a long, impre...