Nuts and Volts №4 2014

Месяц: April
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April 2014
20 Build the BaTESLA Coil
How would of NikolaTesIa designed his famous coil if he had been able to access modern day electronic parts? Here's one idea.
■ By Matt Bates
28 The Dryer Minder
While originally created for a specific purpose, this basic "notification" circuit can be implemented in many different applications.
■ By Jim Lacenski
34 The Decade Box Revisited
Decade boxes allow users to dial in precise amounts of electrical resistance to be inserted into a circuit they're designing. Original boxes had faceplates with the values printed on them, but extra math was always involved. Here's a handy update to that reliable piece of equipment.
■ By Frank Muratore
38 A Full Motion Home Simulator
Go "virtually" anywhere with your own homebrew flight simulator.
■ By Walt Noon
46 MakerPlot—The DIY Software Kit... Part 7
Be introduced to MakerPlot's best kept secret: the Logs(Debug) Immediate window.
■ By John Gavlik and Martin Hebel

Columns
08 PICAXE Primer
Sharpening Your Tools of Creativity
PICAXE-Pi Communications - Part 2.
We'll continue with our PICAXE-Pi communications experiments, end cover the basic techniques that can be used to send a PICAXE ADC reading to the Pi from any analog sensor we choose.
52 Open Communication
The Latest in Networking and Wireless Technologies
Software-Defined Radios Everywhere.
Virtually all radios today — cell phones and Wi-Fi WLAN, for example — are software-defined radios. Find out exactly what SDRs are and how they work.
56 Smiley s Workshop
Programming • Hardware • Projects
The Arduino Classroom. Arduino 101/Chapter 4: Digital Input... Pushbuttons.
Learn how to design circuits with pushbuttons and how to utilize them to get your system to take action when they are pressed (or not).
68 The Design Cycle
Advanced Techniques for Design Engineers
Total Eclipse of the Cross Compiler.
The BeagleBone Black and Raspberry Pi are different in many ways. They are also alike in many ways. However, when it comes to programming them, the equalizer appears in the form of a Linux-based GNU cross compiler toolchain running under the umbrella of an Eclipse IDE.

 
Departments
06 DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVES
A Maker's Dozen: Designing Around Failure
07 READER FEEDBACK
16 NEW PRODUCTS
19 SHOWCASE
67 ELECTRO-NET
74 NV WEBSTORE
77 CLASSIFIEDS
78 TECH FORUM
81 AD INDEX