Nuts and Volts February 2004 | |||
| Page# | ||
Electronics Q&A | 8 | ||
Good-bye 12V, Hello 42V; Low-Battery Indicator; Iron Keeps its Cool; and Calibrate! Calibrate! Sance to the Music. | |||
Personal Robotics | 16 | ||
Discover what an Isopod can do for you! | |||
Open Communication | 22 | ||
Ethernet - Part 2: Wireless LANs. | |||
Stamp Applications | 28 | ||
Makin' It Motorized. | |||
Hobby Electronics is Down - Not Out | 38 | ||
A few more thoughts on the subject from one of the pioneering teachers of our hobby. | |||
Forrest M. Mims III | |||
Harvesting Electricity from the Environment | 40 | ||
Light a 100 volt bulb with the waves that surround you. | |||
Dan Shanefield | |||
A Simple Capacitance Meter: Using the ADuC812 | 43 | ||
Clever programming yields a useful bench tool. | |||
Schlomo Engelberg | |||
Making Your Own Custom Membrane Switches | 48 | ||
A simple - yet effective - way to dress up your projects. | |||
Gerard Fonte | |||
The Amazing Frisbee Black Box or Basic Stamp Frisbee | 52 | ||
Instrument your Favorite sporting goods! | |||
Ralph Lorenz | |||
Human Error and the Engineering Design Process | 56 | ||
Some thoughts about user-centered design. | |||
R.B. Whittingham | |||
What is Virtual Memory? | 58 | ||
Learn about the secret way your operating sustem manages limited physical RAM. | |||
Mark Balch | |||
Near Space | 64 | ||
Part 1 of 2: Start exploring the final frontier from your own backyard. | |||
L. Paul Verhage | |||
Bipolar Transistor Cookbook | 70 | ||
Part 8 of 8. In this month's final installment, useful transistor circuits and gadgets are covered. | |||
Ray Marston | |||
Techknowledgey 2004 | 78 | ||
New Cooling Technique for Electronic Devices, HP Continues to Gain Workstation Market Share, ... and more! | |||
Just for Starters | 82 | ||
Choosing a 7400-series logic family. | |||
In the Trenches | 86 | ||
For design engineers facing real world problems. This month: being successful. |