All items tagged with USB and Gerber (53)

1-07-2010 | Many radio amateurs in practice use two receivers, one portable and the other a fixed receiver with a PC control facility. The Elektor DSP r...

1-07-2010 | A tilt sensor is a very versatile device: for example, it can be used as a (game) controller or as an alarm sensor to protect valuables. The...

1-07-2010 | Two years ago, I presented here the USB/TTL serial conversion cables from FTDI — wonderful communication and debugging tools. The increasing...

1-03-2010 | Passwords are important but also annoying. The more secure the password the more difficult it is to remember. This project based on the Elek...

1-02-2010 | This project implements a physical progress bar for Winamp. Here a small ATmega microcontroller uses the USB interface to provide a bidirect...

1-01-2010 | Herwe use a green glowing valve as a CPU activity meter. Power and control are both provided by the USB port. A simpler variant on the circu...

1-05-2009 | Texas Instruments supplies handy USB evaluation sticks with related software for its low-cost MSP430 controllers. Unfortunately the I/O faci...

1-03-2009 | Modern computers no longer come with parallel or serial ports fitted. Although these ports see declining use in practice, to designers, a po...

1-02-2009 | This practical instrument can be used to measure and record the characteristic curves of NPN and PNP bipolar transistors, N- and P-channel J...

1-09-2008 | Like it or not, Ball & Beam is a compulsory item on the Electronics Engineering curriculum, specifically for classes on PID (proportional-in...