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| NV January 2009 |
Features
Power MOSFETs
by Gerard Fonte
Part 1 will cover the theory behind these useful devices that have a lot of overlooked features. Page 50
A Touch of Spice Part 2
by Peter Stonard
This month, make discoveries about IC circuits that are well-known and learn more about the concepts of sub-circuits and macromodels. Page 54
How To: Surface Mount Soldering
by Robert Doerr
Get over your fear of working with these tiny components. Page 60
Projects
Instrumentation for Model Rocketry
Microcontroller/PIC
by Mike Bessant
Incorporate additional instrumentation to a flight recorder to measure a rocket's rate of roll, relative altitude, and booster-stage separation detection. Page 34
16x16 Tri-Colored LED Matrix - Real Time Clock for the Parallax SX52
Electronic Gadgets
by Timothy Gilmore
This project allows the user to create thier own scrolling display to show the time (or other messages) in multiple colors. Page 40
The Proto Buddy
Circuits
by Jim Stewart
Take proto circuit building to the next level with this device that allows you to expand your existing board so you can create all kinds of circuits. Page 44
Columns
Techknowledgey
by Jeff Eckert
TechKnowledgey 2009
Reconnecting Brain Cells, Another Leap Toward The Sun?, New Unified Storage Appliance, Rugged Military Computer Introduced, and more. Page 12
Robotics Resources
by Vern Graner
Robo Resolution 2009
My New Year's resolution is 1650x1280. Page 15
Stamp Applications
by Jon Williams
Control from the Couch - Redux
With the SX and SX/B I think it's time to revisit SIRCs decoding and even couple it with serial I/O so that we can enable dual-mode control (IR plus serial) or have the ability to use our project as an IR-to-serial translator. Page 18
Q&A
by Russell Kincaid
Questions & Answers
High impedance preamp, audio to LED display driver, FM shutdown problem, and more. Page 26
Getting Started With PICS
by Chuck Hellebuyck
I2C Communication
It's a new year and, unfortunately, economic times are looking quite dismal. Page 68
The Design Cycle
by Fred Eady
Chatting Up A Thumbdrive
Using the CDIP2 API coupled with the VDIP2 hardware interface we've designed and built, you should have no problems including USB Flash drives in your Design Cycle. Page 72
Smiley’s Workshop
by Joe Pardue
Smileys Workshop: An AVR C Programming Series (Part 6)
In this month's workshop, after learning more about c syntax for decision making, we are going to write a menu navigation system similar in concept to the one on your cell phone, but for the Butterfly using its LCD and joystick. Page 80
Departments
Developing Perspectives
by Bryan Bergeron
Please visit our Developing Perspectives blog to read the full article and comment. Page 8
New Products
in New Products
The Desktop Companion II Page 31
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