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Elektor is a monthly magazine about hobby electronics, first published as "Electuur" in the Netherlands in 1960, and now published worldwide in nine languages: English, German, Dutch, French, Chinese, Greek, Spanish, Swedish and Finnish. Elektor publishes schematics of electronic designs geared to hobbyists, but also of interest to professionals. To help hobbyists build these designs Elektor also offers printed circuit boards of many of its designs, and kits and modules. If the design uses a microcontroller, as is now often the case, Elektor also publishes the sourcecode for it on their website
Contents
Colophon
Corporate information on Elektor magazine.
News & New Products
A monthly roundup of all the latest in electronics land.
Clean Power from Hydrogen
Hydrogen appears to be a very promising candidate for mobile applications so let's have a look at what you can actually do with fuel cells.
dsPIC Control Board
A heavyweight control board for industrial applications like motor control.
Solar Thermal Energy Regulator
Put this board is at the hub of your solar collectors, valves, pumps and hot water storage tanks.
Worry-free Drilling
Thirteen pipe and wire locators tested and compared for their ability to detect electrical wiring, wood and water pipes in walls.
Make Room for the Roomba!
At Elektor we like to take things apart.
This month a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner was our unsuspecting victim.
Design Tip: Star LED instead of incandescent lamp
Caveats and considerations on one for one replacement, which may not be feasible in all cases.
Measured again...
Further investigation into power factor correction (PFC) of LED lamps - with worrying results.
Embedded World 2010
A report on the world's largest show on microcontrollers and embedded technologies.
The making of the dsPIC board (2)
Straight from the Elektor lab. the how-it-got-designed story of the dsPIC control board featured in this issue.
Cloud Altitude Meter
Here's Aircontrol, a portable instrument that will tell you the height of the cloud base straight above you.
ln-vehideCO2 Meter
This fast responding CO2 meter for use in cars reliably detects air conditions that can lead to loss of concentration. Time to open a window!
VisiOLED
An ATM18 based wireless door opener using RFID for visitor identification, with his/her face appearing on an OLED display.
Colossus — the Rebuild
Resurrected and now on display at Bletchley Park, the 1943 computer with its valve-based XOR functions that helped crack Enigma encrypted messages in WW2.
Low-cost Electric Vehicle Charge Station
Here comes the roadside coin-operated kWh vending machine; EV owners will like this!
Retronics: Grid Dipper (ca. 1950)
Regular feature on electronics "odd & ancient".
Hexadoku
Our monthly puzzle with an electronics touch.
Coming Attractions
Next month in Elektor magazine.
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