Nuts and Volts №5 2014

Месяц: May
Страниц: 84
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Язык: English

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May 2014
26 72 Watt Constant Voltage/Constant Current Power Supply
This cost-effective unit will help prevent catastrophic events to components and keep your batteries charged up, as well.
■ By Allen Ripingill
34 Do-lt-Yourself Surface-Mount Printed Circuit Boards
Continue your learning journey in electronics by making your own surface-mount PCBs. t's not as hard as you might think it is.
■  By David Dorhout
42 Game Programming for the Arduino
Not only is it simple to write game programs, it's downright fun.
■  By Garry Paul Spencer
48 Calculators as Coprocessors
Connect Texas Instruments' calculators to Arduinos to extend this open source prototyping platform's computing power for math functions and to make graphic capabilities easier to implement.
■  By William Massano
54 MakerPlot—The DIY Software Kit... Part 8
Learn some of the specific reasons why this program is called the DIY software kit.
■  By John Gavlik and Martin Hebel

Columns
08 TechKnowledgey 2014
Events, Advances, and News
Learn about reverse solar generation, digging up dirt on neighbors, teeny-tiny MCUs, plus some other timely topics.
12 Smiley s Workshop
Programming • Hardware • Projects
The Arduino Classroom.
Arduino 101/Chapter 5: Analog Output
Get your fill of the serial class of functions,
the differences between analog and digital signals,
and how to use these signals to control LEDs
and servomotors.
60 The Spin Zone
Adventures in Propeller Programming
Oh, Say, Can you l2C?
Sometimes programming aficionados assume concepts that are simple to them are understood by everybody when, in reality, they are not. PC is one of these topics. Get up to speed on this protocol so you can spin circles around fellow enthusiasts.
68 Near Space
Approaching the Final Frontier
AThermometer for theTotable Thermal Vacuum Chamber.
I needed to know the temperature of what was going on inside my JVC while I was running tests, instead of after the test was done. I couldn't find an affordable thermometer that mimicked near space conditions, so I turned to a homebrew solution.
 
Departments
06 DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVES
    When Additive and Subtractive Technologies Don't Add Up
07 READER FEEDBACK
18 NEW PRODUCTS
21 SHOWCASE

66 ELECTRO-NET

74 NV WEBSTORE
77 CLASSIFIEDS
78 TECH FORUM

81 AD INDEX