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Microcontroller fans from all over the world know and appreciate the American magazine Circuit Cellar, founded by Steve Ciarcia 22 years ago and currently owned by Elektor International Media b.v. The magazine contains ambitious projects, backgrounders, fetaure articles, lots of practical tips on...
Publication date: 2 September 2010
Stanford researchers have developed a water-purifying filter that makes the process more than 80,000 times faster than existing filters. The key is coating the filter fabric – ordinary cotton – with nanotubes and silver nanowires, then electrifying it. The filter uses very little power, has no...
Publication date: 2 September 2010
Linear Audio Publishers of Hoensbroek, The Netherlands, have announced the release of the premier issue of their new semi-annual 'bookzine' called Linear Audio. The printed publication's goal is to provide high quality technical audio information and construction projects to serious...
Publication date: 1 September 2010
Though housed in a CD jewel case like his first circuit album ( 1-Bit Music 2004-05), Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally "performs" its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and...
Publication date: 1 September 2010
Epson Toyocom Corporation announced it has developed an extremely small absolute pressure sensor that provides excellent accuracy and resolution.
Epson Toyocom has steadily miniaturized its quartz pressure sensors to the point where they are compact enough for use in mobile devices – and has...
Publication date: 31 August 2010
Cree expands its LED Module LMR4 product line with the introduction of Cree EasyWhite technology and a broad range of available color temperatures. The LED Module LMR4 with EasyWhite technology uniquely integrates driver electronics, optics and primary thermal management.
Designed to last...
Publication date: 30 August 2010
Our correspondent Augustus wrote: “ China is one of those countries that has a strong urge to break records. I love those countries, they innovate and keep surprising me and the rest of the world. A feat China is trying to achieve for some time now is the train speed record. And my guess is...
Publication date: 27 August 2010
A brief tour of the Web clearly shows one of the problems facing many electronic enthusiasts: the enclosure. All too often it’s a plastic box in a dismal shade of grey, cluttered with an awkward arrangement of connectors, controls and indicators. You spent hours designing a stunning PCB layout,...
Publication date: 26 August 2010
Lyric Semiconductor, Inc. a DARPA- and venture-funded MIT spin-out, last week emerged from stealth mode to launch a new technology called probability processing, which is poised to deliver a fundamental change in processing performance and power consumption. With over a decade of development at...
Publication date: 25 August 2010
austriamicrosystems has announced the AS1119, the most advanced and smallest LED dot-matrix driver (channels vs. PCB space) available. The AS1119 drives 144 LEDs but requires only 9 mm² PCB space, reduces external component count, reduces connector pin count and requires fewer PCB layers....
Publication date: 24 August 2010
In collisions with vehicles, pedestrians typically have far less chances to survive than vehicle occupants. A technology developed by the University of Kassel ( Germany ) aims at improving the situation by establishing a radio-based warning system.
Available pedestrian detection systems...
Publication date: 23 August 2010
The ingenuous people at AdaFruits have done it again, this time revealing -- in good hacker tradition -- just why all of the latest Apple gizmos like the iPhone insist on having an original Apple charger connected up when al they demand is current to charge an internal battery – right?
In a 7...
Publication date: 20 August 2010
Harnessing darkness for practical use, researchers at the U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a laser power detector coated with the world's darkest material — a forest of carbon nanotubes that reflects almost no light across the visible and part of the...
Publication date: 19 August 2010
The September 2010 edition of Elektor is on sale from UK newsstands and bookshops from today, August 19, 2010. It’s a special edition indeed with its massive-scale Scratch and Win Sweepstake on pages 4 and 5. No other publication on electronics has ever staged a sweepstake with such an array of...
Publication date: 18 August 2010
Green laser pointers have become a popular consumer item, delivering light that’s brighter to the eye than red lasers, but stories have circulated on the Web about the potential hazards of inexpensive models. Now, a team led by physicist Charles Clark at the National Institute of Standards and...
Publication date: 17 August 2010
The new P95020 power management IC from Integrated Device Technology is a system-on-chip device intended to be used in portable consumer products such as smartphones, portable navigation devices, mobile Internet devices and e-books.
According to IDT, the P95020 PMIC is the first of its kind...
Publication date: 16 August 2010
Introducing the potential turbine of the future: the ultra efficient Wind Lens designed by Kyushu University professor Yuji Ohya. According to Yuji Ohya and his team the Wind Lens’ honeycomb-like structure could triple the amount of wind energy that can be produced by offshore turbines.
The...
Publication date: 13 August 2010
An increasing number of embedded application developers and other enthusiasts are switching to ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) microcontrollers and the associated platforms created by communities and leading chip manufacturers like Atmel. Elektor was the first magazine to publish an ARM development...
Publication date: 12 August 2010
Wolfson Microelectronics has announced the introduction of its innovative WM2002 stereo headphone driver, claimed to be the world’s first commercially available digital ambient noise cancelling (ANC) application-specific integrated circuit. Featuring Wolfson’s myZone™ digital ANC technology, the...
Publication date: 11 August 2010
A new weapon in the fight against Somali pirates, the SeaLase© laser system from LaserSec has a deterrent and sickening effect. In some cases, this laser weapon even causes vomiting. The claimed range is up to 2.5 miles (approx. 4,000 meters).
Piracy is a continuing threat to international...
Publication date: 10 August 2010
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