6 Colophon
Who's who at Elektor magazine.
8 News & New Products
A monthly roundup of all the latest in
electronics land.
24 ec-Renew-Mate
This professional grade reflow oven will
easily handle all your SMT soldering jobs.
16 USB long-Term Weather logger
This sophisticated project uses PC
sensors to capture atmospheriC pressure,
temper.Jture and humidity.
22 12( Sensors
This article shows the ease of
implementing temperature, humidity
and atmospheric pressure sensors in
microcontroller projects.
26 Milkymist ScC
A remarkably accessible bit of system on
a chip capable of performing advanced
graphic operations at impressive speeds.
32 ATM18 Compass
One more great project added to the long
list of applications for the Elektor ATM18
microcontroller board.
36 J2B: Universal MMI Module
using ARM Cortex-M3
A real jack of all trades, this
microcontroller board can be configured
in an incredible number of ways with
switches, encoders and Le displays.
43 E-labs Inside:
A ghost in the machine
What (on earth) happens to ,m LED when
it's about to break dO'Nn electrically?
44 E-Labs Inside: Alibaba
A greatwebsite for electronics enthusiasts
- just waiting to be discovered.
44 E-labs Inside: Perfect piuas
Who said that brand new SMT oven can't
be used to cook lunchtime snacks?
45 E-Labs Inside:
Problems under pressure
A design prob lem that forced the Elektor
lab staff to put their think ing caps on.
46 E-Labs Inside: Small pitfalls
A word about the 'tombstone' effec t you
sure want to avoid wtle!l refi ow-so ldering
SMT parts.
47 E-Blocks go Twitter
Amazing! A set of E-blocks con figured
to Twitter weather conditions and so dal
messages to members of a sailing club.
Automatica lly!
50 Audio D5P Course (3)
Now it gets for real with the description of
the DSP board we're using In the course,
Pretty advanced stuff!
58 FT232R use Serial Bridge I BOB
This little board will be invaluable if ever
you need to examine those elusive signals
travel ling up and down a USB link,
62 Here comes the Busl (7)
This month we discuss a simple
applicati on protocol for "ou r" bus,
67 USB AudiO Adapter
This project goes to show that interfacing
audio and the USS bus Is not all black box
ffi gineering.
70 Compact Warning Flasher
Give your bicycle a rear li ght that's very
visible to traffic coming from beh ind.
72 Retronics: The Chaos Machine (1)
R.egular fea ture on ~ ec tro n i cs 'odd &
andent', Series Ed itor: Jan Sui ting
76 Light Sensor
A cheap and simple yet reliable Circui t to
detect dusk,
77 Hexadoku
Elektor's monthly puzzle with an
electron l cs touch ,
84Coming Attractions
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