Название: Elektor
Год: 2013
Месяц: Декабрь
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Elektor - популярный зарубежный журнал по электронике и схемотехнике
• Community
8 Elektor World
• The Electronic Roundabout: tell us a new story!
• Clouds—as we know them
• Start Printing in 3D!
• And more
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• The Gate
• Projects
10 UltiProp Clock (1)
This article gives you the key details that hopefully will
enable you to successfully build your own high-quality
clock, which is bound to draw admiring, envious cries of
"Wow!" from your guests. It's high time you too discover
Elektor's Ulti(mate) Prop(eller) Clock.
22 Multi I/O for FPGA Development Board (1)
Elektor's December 2012 FPGA is expanded with: GPS
receiver; temperature sensor; pressure sensor; RGB
color sensor; 2 x 16 character LCD; 4 pushbuttons;
4 LEDs; rotary encoder; 7 external digital expansion
pins; and 3 external analog inputs.
32 Home and Office Network Tester
The circuit presented here offers easy one-button
testing of common home and office networks, with
red-amber-green indication of the network status, and
any faults. The design is really simple, just a
microcontroller, an Ethernet interface, a pushbutton for
starting the test and status LEDs to show the condition
of the network. Still, it does do a lot more than a simple
cable tester.
40 USB Battery Tester
Testing batteries is a fairly common task among
electronics enthusiasts. Instead of using a complex
stand-alone meter, you can put the intelligence of a PC
to good use for this. Here we add a battery interface to
the general-purpose USB-I024 cable presented in a
previous edition of Elektor magazine.
48 Enter BeagleBone Black
Yet another platform has been released to the
embedded audience: the BeagleBone Black. Recently
we (finally) got one on our workbench. It looks like a
very promising platform with powerful hardware and a lot
of potential. Does it outperform the Raspberry Pi?
52 The Flowstone of Wisdom
There are many visual programming languages out
there, but Flowstone is one with a twist. Clemens
Valens examines.
56 Joule Robbin' Hood
This circuit steals (energy) from the rich (batteries) and
gives it to the poor (plants).
• DesignSpark
58 DesignSpark Tips & Tricks Day #6:
after the layout
DesignSpark's online BOM and PCB quoting tools
enable you to find out how much it would cost to build
our example project. These tools can be a great time
saver.
• Labs
62 Surfin' the RPi Wave
An overview of Raspberry Pi based projects currently
lining up at www. elektor-labs.com, including outlines of
RPi Prototyping, mass storage and refrigerator
monitoring.
• Industry
64 News & New Products
A selection of news items received from the electronics
industry, labs and organizations.
• Tech The Future
68 Microgrids
Microgrids are one of the answers to the question of
how to increase the share of sustainable sources in the
energy mix. TTF investigates on the Faroe Islands.
• Magazine
70 Bendix 60B4-1-A
AC/DC Insulation Tester
Warning: High Potential! Chuck Hansen takes a
nostalgic yet technical look at a 1960s instrument
designed to check and ensure electrical safety. Series
Editor: Jan Buiting.
76 Hexadoku
Elektor's monthly puzzle with an electronics touch.
77 Gerard's Columns: Rctronics Personified
A column or two from our columnist Gerard Fonte.
82 Next Month in Elektor
A sneak preview of articles on the Elektor
publication schedule.
