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JUNE 2006

PROJECTS

and FEATURES

ON THE COVER ...

34 CONTROL YOUR WORLD

Interface your PC to a portable

digital multi-meter.

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By Michael Simpson

44 “MAIL DELIVERED”

DETECTOR

Save yourself unnecessary trips to

the mailbox with this handy gadget.

■

By Charles Irwin

38 PANORAMA MANIA

Cure “bad stitching” with

this digital camera panorama

shooting platform that uses

a modified IR remote.

■

By J. Ronald Eyton

COLUMNS DEPARTMENTS

54 ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING

POLYMERS

While plastics have a variety of

useful properties, electrical

conduction was not counted as

one of them ... until 1986.

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08 TECHKNOWLEDGEY 2006

Events, advances, and news

from the electronics world.

06 READER FEEDBACK

14 STAMP APPLICATIONS

Spin, baby, spin.

30 NEW PRODUCTS

52 SHOWCASE

By Faiz Rahman

18 PERSONAL ROBOTICS

Zen and the art of Zigbee: Part 3.

53 NEWSBYTES

58 PROGRAMMING THE

POCKET PC

Get a brief intro to the free

“eMbedded Visual Tools SDK.”

■

22 Q&A

Negative resistance demystified

and lots of cool car gadgets.

66 ELECTRO-NET

By Walter O. Krawec

79 OPEN COMMUNICATION

TV on a cell phone.

96 CLASSIFIEDS

67 SPACECRAFT FILMS REOPENS

THE NEW FRONTIER

This set of six DVDs documents

the pioneering efforts that took

us into space.

■

82 GETTING STARTED WITH PICs

Using the PIC external interrupt.

100 NV BOOKSTORE

88 THE DESIGN CYCLE

Easy ARM hardware.

102 TECH FORUM

By Edward B. Driscoll, Jr.

105 ADVERTISERS INDEX

73 USB DEVICE CONTROL

Simple ways to control devices

through USB have become

essential.

■

By Alexander Enzmann

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June 2006

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Link Instruments

PC-Based Test Equipment

Logic Analyzers

New LA-5000 Series

• 40 to 160 channels

• up to 500 MSa/s

• Variable Threshold

• 8 External Clocks

• 16 Level Triggering

• up to 512K samples/ch

• USB 2.0 and Parallel Interface

• Pattern Generator option

LA5240 (200MHz, 40CH) $1700 USB 2.0/Parallel

LA5280 (200MHz, 80CH) $2350 USB 2.0/Parallel

LA5540 (500MHz, 40CH) $2500 USB 2.0/Parallel

LA5580 (500MHz, 80CH) $3500 USB 2.0/Parallel

LA55160 (500MHz, 160CH) $7500 USB 2.0/Parallel

Small and portable LA-2124

$800

• Small, Lightweight and Portable

• Only 4 oz and 4.75” x 2.75” x 1”

• Parallel Port Interface to PC

• Trigger Out

• 24 Channel Logic Analyzer

• 100MSa/S max sample rate

• Variable Threshold Voltage

• Large 128k Buffer

Digital Oscilloscopes

• 2 Channel Digital Oscilloscope

• 100 MSa/s max single shot rate

• 32K samples per channel

• Advanced Triggering

• Only 9 oz and 6.3” x 3.75” x 1.25”

• Small, Lightweight, and Portable

• USB or Parallel Port interface

• Advanced Math

• FFT Spectrum Analyzer (option)

DSO-2102S $525

DSO-2102M $650

DSO-2102S(USB) $600

DSO-2102M(USB) $725

Link Instruments (973) 808-8990

17A Daniel Road East · Fairfield, NJ 07004 · Fax (973) 808-8786

www.Link-instruments.com

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