The tones produced by an electric guitar are greatly affected by its electronic components and wiring configurations. Understanding these concepts can give you the ability to modify your guitar to get the sound you want.
Here’s a quick look at how we ended up with car radios that offered both AM and FM reception.
Building a toaster oven temperature profile controller might not sound so exciting, but that's just the first layer of the onion! The exact same hardware and software can be used to build all sorts of embedded microcontroller projects, and you can do so without ever installing a software development environment anywhere because it's all inside the microcontroller itself. This is all based on relatively new technology called "WebUSB" and "Web Serial."
This working three-phase motor can be created on a breadboard for under $15 in parts. The motor can be used to explore the motor concepts and theory used in electric vehicles.
In 1970, Signetics engineer Hans Camenzind designed the 555 programmable timer chip. Fifty-three years later, it’s still going strong as the world’s largest selling integrated circuit. I’ll explain the inner workings of the 555 and help make you an expert on creating your own 555-based designs.
Most of us have seen the car alarm “blinky” light through a vehicle’s window. However, a fake light is easy to differentiate from the real thing in the way it operates. The fake LED would blink constantly, while the “real thing” would blink only once every few seconds. Here’s a circuit to make the fake more realistic.
There are several key steps to setting up a telescope. Some people use a compass and a broomstick to align their telescope. In this article, I’ll show you how to build a laser alignment circuit to easily align your telescope mount/tripod with “True North.”
