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NOVEMBER 2005

PROJECTS

and FEATURES

ON THE COVER ...

Check out Marc White’s

project on Page 48 that

enables your computer to

tell you what the value of

your resistors are.

38 BUILD AN MP3 PLAYER

PLATFORM — Part 2

This month, the actual construction,

testing, operation, and possible

modifications are covered.

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44 SMALL DC MOTOR PWM

SPEED CONTROLLER

The DC motor speed controller

described in this article uses

a modified form of PWM, a

technique for which you will find

numerous applications such as

R/C cars and robots.

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COLUMNS

DEPARTMENTS

By Bill Donofrio

08 TECKNOWLEDGEY 2005

Events, advances, and news

from the electronics world.

06 READER FEEDBACK

48 SORT YOUR ELECTRONIC

COMPONENTS BY VOICE

Create a resistor color code

calculator using XHTML + Voice.

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14 GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS

12 MICRO MEMORIES

The Atari 2600.

24 ELECTRO-NET

By Marc White

16 Q&A

CCFLs, degaussing, signal sampling,

and putting your PIC to sleep.

30 SHOWCASE

56 INTRODUCTION TO FILTERS

Active and passive analog filters

built with discrete components are

the focus of this tutorial.

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32 NEWS BYTES

25 IN THE TRENCHES

Human nature.

34 NEW PRODUCTS

By Russell Kincaid

54 NV BOOKSTORE

68 NEAR SPACE

The well-dressed astronaut.

60 DATA PROCESSING USING

SCAM — Part 2

Learn how Content-Addressable

Memory processes queries against

simple and complex data types.

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76 CLASSIFIEDS

80 LET’S GET TECHNICAL

The Zilog Z8Encore! XP

microcontroller.

90 TECH FORUM

By Gamal Ali Labib, PhD

96 TETSUJIN

Performance

Electronics for Cars

This book has 160 pages dedicated

to DIY hacks for myriad automotive

systems.

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86 STAMP APPLICATIONS

Let there be LEDs ... again!

97 ADVERTISERS INDEX

By James Antonakos

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4 NUTS & VOLTS November 2005

By Robert Armstrong

64 REVIEW:

Link Instruments

PC-Based Test Equipment

Logic Analyzers

New LA-5000 Series

• 40 to 160 channels

• up to 500 MSa/s

• Variable Threshold

• 8 External Clocks

• 16 Level Triggering

• up to 512K samples/ch

• USB 2.0 and Parallel Interface

• Pattern Generator option

LA5240 (200MHz, 40CH) $1700 USB 2.0/Parallel

LA5280 (200MHz, 80CH) $2350 USB 2.0/Parallel

LA5540 (500MHz, 40CH) $2500 USB 2.0/Parallel

LA5580 (500MHz, 80CH) $3500 USB 2.0/Parallel

LA55160 (500MHz, 160CH) $7500 USB 2.0/Parallel

Small and portable LA-2124

$800

• Small, Lightweight and Portable

• Only 4 oz and 4.75” x 2.75” x 1”

• Parallel Port Interface to PC

• Trigger Out

• 24 Channel Logic Analyzer

• 100MSa/S max sample rate

• Variable Threshold Voltage

• Large 128k Buffer

Digital Oscilloscopes

• 2 Channel Digital Oscilloscope

• 100 MSa/s max single shot rate

• 32K samples per channel

• Advanced Triggering

• Only 9 oz and 6.3” x 3.75” x 1.25”

• Small, Lightweight, and Portable

• USB or Parallel Port interface

• Advanced Math

• FFT Spectrum Analyzer (option)

DSO-2102S $525

DSO-2102M $650

DSO-2102S(USB) $600

DSO-2102M(USB) $725

Link Instruments (973) 808-8990

17A Daniel Road East · Fairfield, NJ 07004 · Fax (973) 808-8786

www.Link-instruments.com

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