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The Fascinating Transistor-transistor Logic (TTL) Clock!

Before you involved yourself into this TTL clock development project, you should know some of the fact and history of the TTL, so you will knew it better!
Transistor-transistor Logic or also known as ‘TTL’ is a class of digital circuits, which it is built from bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and resistor as well. The reason [...]

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The Ultrasonic Bat Detector Can Be Really Loud and Awesome!

Do you have the deep interest about how the bat detect obstacle and catch its preys in the dark? If you’ve been wondering all the time, then today you’ll reveal the secret by your own!

Basically, this simple bat detector is a device that based on a frequency division type. This mean is a device that [...]

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The Easy Guide For Writing Yourself an IC Friday Post

If you love to challenge yourself to try some different and exciting project, then you must try to make an IC Friday Post here.
First of all, since you have to work with the hazardous “Sulfuric Acid”, which and organic solvent that can penetrate through your clothes and even human tissues, therefore you need to wear [...]

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Feel the Sparkling Moment with the HDD Grinder

If you had lots of broken HDD and you don’t even know, what supposed to deal with these HDD, do you mind to transform it into a super duper HDD grinder?
You need to prepare these components:

A dead HDD (It doesn’t matter what the brand is, as long as it has [...]

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The Old-Fashioned Nixie Clock Can Be Stylish Too

The Nixie Tube is an electronic device and its main purpose is to displaying numbers. Most of the time, the tube is normally filled with neon with a little mercury/argon at low pressure.
Basically, the nixie tube has ten cathodes which in the digits from 0 to 9. The average longevity of nixie tubes is about [...]

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Double the Fun with This USB Controller/Display

What will you first thinking about, if someone ask you, “What is your favorite online racing simulator?” Well, unbelievably, 8/10 racing fans will spontaneously speak out this “Live For Speed” game!
This also indicated that LFS is the most famous online racing simulator game amongst the others.
If there a simple method to double the fun here, [...]

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Gear Indicator – A Most Demand Tool for the Racing Games Lovers

Are you a fan for “Live For Speed”? If you are, then this simple gear indicator (GI) will be your good assistant, as it can display the gear numbers, fuel warning and rpm limiter on the spot.
Here are the three steps you need to follow:

LFS configuration
Hardware
GI [...]

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