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Craig Lindley


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Raspberry Pi, Anyone?
March 2013, Page 54
Get a piece of this popular DIY action by learning how to cook up your own RPi to start experimenting with.

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The Desktop Contemplator
Project: Electronic Gadgets,
December 2012, Page 36

Looking for some inspiration, electronic style? Well, this is the device for you! Gaze into its palette of colorosity to both amaze and calm yourself.

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DDS and the Electronic Music Box
April 2012, Page 28
Make Music With Digitally Generated Analog Signals.

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Build Your Own Wi-Fi Internet Radio
Project: Communications/Radio, Computer Related, Wireless,
March 2012, Page 30

Get access to literally thousands of radio stations world wide to customize your very own play list. Plus, you get to control the unit from the comfort of your armchair with an iPod Touch.

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Build the Infinity Portal
Project: Electronic Gadgets,
August 2011, Page 34

Construct this updated version of an infinity mirror using LEDs controlled by an Arduino.

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Recycled Electronics
Project:
January 2010, Page 34

Give an old laptop a new life by turning it into a digital photo gallery.

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Psychedelia II
January 2008, Page 52
In the September 1969 issue of Popular Electronics Magazine, Don Lancaster presented a color organ which he called Psychedelia I that I thought was the coolest thing I had ever seen. A color organ — as you may know — is a device that splits music up into numerous frequency bands and modulates colored lights (typically one color of light per band) according to musical content. In honor of Don Lancaster (my electronics hero) I named this color organ, Psychedelia II...

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WEBSTER: The Mini Web Server
July 2008, Page 46
In thinking about conservation, it occurred to me that hosting my personal website on a desktop PC used a lot of energy. Even without a monitor, a desktop PC draws about 120W of power or about 200 KWH a year. So, I designed and built a low power alternative — Webster, the mini web server. There are many uses for Webster-like web servers including...

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Floating Point Multiplication and Division
September 2007, Page 58
I began my career as a hardware engineer many years ago, but I’ve spent the last 12 years writing Java software for large commercial applications; far removed from the underlying hardware on which the applications run...

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Lattice Wave Digital Filters
November 2007, Page 68
Typically, when I find a technology that interests me, I go overboard in my research and spend lots of hours playing with it in order to understand it. LWDFs were no exception...