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The Unbelievable Magnetic Rotary Encoder v1.0

Would you want to own a sensor, which can measure the rotation of the motor or even control it so that it goes to the position you want it to be? Well, is time for develop your own magnetic rotary encoder, where you can use it to measure the speed of motor and let it [...]

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Charlieplexing – It’s a Cylon-eyes and Not Related with Charlie Angels!

First of all, do you know what this “Charlieplexing” is? It is an electronics techniques, which developed by Charlie Allen, a genius and talented engineer at Maxim.
According to Charlieplexing theory, it’s involved minimizing the use of I/O pins on a microcontroller to drive a maximum number of LEDs. In addition, the n drive pins can [...]

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Eliminate the Hassle by This Plug-in Breadboard Power Supply

Sometimes, it is a really fussy and frustrated task, when you cannot find the components you’re needed to build the power supply module.
Ok, if you’re giving a choice to have a ready-to-use plug-in breadboard power supply, would you mind to try it up or even apply it at your electronic projects?
With the straight power supply [...]

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Spice up Your Home Party with Discrete LED Color Organ

Are you looking for the more efficient ways to create a smaller, excellent portability and longer batteries life discrete LED color organ?

Then, you have come to the right place…

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Get Excited with This New YBox2 Kit

If you’re the kind of person, that love to experiment new thing, then this YBox2 Kit will be your next playground.
The YBox2 (this sound like the Y2K for me) is a DIY networked set-top box, which it’s allows you to connect it to TV with customized contents.
This YBox2 kit built using the new Parallax Propeller [...]

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11 Useful Tricks For ‘508A You Must Know

As a programmer, we always face one common problem: lack of output lines. I’m known that you will need another micro-controller for overcome this matter.
However, the designer of ‘508A have created a 5 output links in an 8-pin chips and this truly awesome!
Let’s see how we can benefit from this innovation.
1. LED and Piezo on [...]

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Let’s Start The Funky Party with Emergency Party Button

People always have an intrigue desire when it’s come to a big red button…
Now, you can simply change the emergency red button into a more excitement thing…
It proudly named as “Emergency Party Button”.

The three main components that consists in this button:

Fancy red button,
Basic Stamp Homework [...]

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