Nuts and Volts №11 2012

Название: Nuts and Volts
Издательство: "www.nutsvolts.com"
Год: 2012

Месяц: November
Страниц: 84
Формат: PDF
Размер: 20.1 Мб
Качество: Отличное
Язык: English

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Columns
10 TechKnowledgey 2012
      Events, Advances, and News
      Read about a USB magnifier that aids inspection,
      an ion engine for mini satellites, a device that can
      make anything a speaker, plus some other cool stuff.
14 Near Space
      Approaching the Final Frontier
      A Simpler-to-Make Near Space Flight Computer.
18 Q & A
      Reader Questions Answered Here
      Answers to questions on a pet-safe invisible fence
      and a solar phone battery charger, just to name a few.
45 Smiley’s Workshop
      Programming • Hardware • Projects
      Fritzing With the Arduino — Part 4.
56 The Spin Zone
      Adventures in Propeller Programming
      Let There Be Colorful Lights!
68 The Design Cycle
      Advanced Techniques for Design Engineers
      Give Your Data Radio the AX8052F100.

Projects & Features
26 Steampunk Planetarium Clock
      This unique timekeeper will have you seeing
      stars ... even the same skies the Spanish
      missionaries observed back in the 1600s!
      ■ By Geoffrey Gill
32 Build the Chirper — the Best
     Turn Signal Monitor Ever!
      Inadvertently leaving a turn signal on is both
      confounding and downright dangerous.
      Let this simple analog device keep you in the
      driver’s seat.
      ■ By Mike Huddleston
40 Compiled Basic for the PIC
      On a Shoestring
      Free yourself from Assembler and learn how
      to set up a complete integrated environment
      for writing, compiling, and burning Basic
      programs into just about any PIC — for
      “basically” free.
      ■ By Thomas Henry

Departments

08 DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVES
24 NEW PRODUCTS
25 SHOWCASE
63 ELECTRO-NET

64 NV WEBSTORE
77 CLASSIFIEDS
78 TECH FORUM
80 AD INDEX