Название: Nuts and Volts
Издательство: nutsvolts.com
Год: 2013
Месяц: September
Страниц: 84
Формат: PDF
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Качество: Хорошее
Язык: English
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September 2013
28 Build a Headset Amplifier
This project uses all discrete components and can be driven by a CD or MP3 player. Plus, it’s a forgiving circuit for beginners.
■ By Ronald Anderson
34 Detecting Sounds With the Sonic Sensor
Put your appliances under sonic control with this super souped-up version of a “clapper.”
■ By Thomas Henry
40 Build This Simple Alarm System With the TI Launchpad
Constructing an alarm system complete with a keypad interface is cheap and simple with Texas Instruments’ MPSP430 microprocessor and their easy-to-use Flash programmer and debugging tool.
■ By Derek Tombrello
Columns
08 TechKnowledgey 2013
Events, Advances, and News
Harpooning your brain, free secure browsing, virtual money, and high-end ear buds are some of the titillating topics covered.
12 Near Space
Approaching the Final Frontier
The 2013 Great Plains Super Launch.
This year’s conference included topics such as near space STEM, designing and flying photometers, long-duration balloon flights and telemetry modes, and vacuum cannons.
16 Q & A
Reader Questions Answered Here
ESD instrument circuits, more about making sparks, VFO design, and MailBag round out this month’s topics.
50 The Spin Zone
Adventures In Propeller Programming
Full Color With One Wire. LED manufacturers are creating some pretty cool products these days, and with just a little bit of programming, you can have a lot of fun with them.
57 The Design Cycle
Advanced Techniques for Design Engineers
Home Automation Telegesis Style.
Absolutely zero ZigBee technical knowledge (or a third mortgage) is needed to put the Telegesis home automation radios to work.
69 Smiley’s Workshop
Programming • Hardware • Protects
Arduino Handheld Prototyper — Part 3.
Design a fresh air controller for your castle,
or wherever you call home.
Departments
06 DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVES Nostalgia and the Amnesia of Time
07 READER FEEDBACK
22 NEW PRODUCTS
27 SHOWCASE
64 NV WEBSTORE
67 ELECTRO-NET
77 CLASSIFIEDS
78 TECH FORUM
81 AD INDEX
