January 25, 1999
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[Ideas For Design]
Available-Light Phototachometer Simplifies Outdoor Remote Sensing
Tachometry, the measurement of the speed of rotating objects, is a common enough application that has many practical but few noteworthy solutions. Some of these jobs, however, have quirky aspects...
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W. Stephen Woodward
[Ideas For Design]
Resistor Allows Multiplexing Of Microcontroller I/O Lines
Because of their small size, low cost, and advanced functionality, the PIC12CXXX family of microcontrollers developed by Microchip are an attractive design element for embeddedcontrol...
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Contributing Author
[Ideas For Design]
Boost Circuit Charges Capacitor At Constant Power
Newly available, high-energy capacitors have extended RF communications capabilities to lowpower devices such as pagers and remote instruments. The power source for these devices, such as an AA...
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Contributing Author
[Pease Porridge]
Bob's Mailbox
Bob, Bob, Bob: I have been reading your articles for quite some time now. Granted, sometimes you vent your frustrations that we have all felt as engineers. But, at least it applies to...
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Bob Pease
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