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Conductive Rubber

Have anybody heard of conductive rubber? It changes its resistance when you stretch or push on it. Anibody knows where I...
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posted by brigatti
3 comments posted 21yrs posted by brigatti

how to control LED array? (follow-up)

Hi - this is a follow-up to this thread: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.electronics.basics/browse_frm/thread/6...
10 comments posted 21yrs
posted by mnoone.uiuc.edu
10 comments posted 21yrs posted by mnoone.uiuc.edu

PWM in a switching power supply

Hi, First of all, I'm trying to figure out how switching power supplies work (the ones in PCs). I've found very basic i...
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posted by sizzlefist
23 comments posted 21yrs posted by sizzlefist

Light switch with Time-out

My two year old son is fascinated with light (and Fan) switches. He will happilly switch one on and off for hours. (wel...
1 comments posted 21yrs
posted by mrbgoogle
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by mrbgoogle

heat sink

Hi: this is a question of 2 transistors mounted on the same heat sink... Two 2N3055 transistors are mounted close toget...
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posted by chickenwing-skool
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by chickenwing-skool

UPS gives funny voltages - why?

I have a Conext (by APC) model CNB-325 battery backup power supply (not a real UPS) that shows funny voltages when the...
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posted by larrymoencurly
4 comments posted 21yrs posted by larrymoencurly

Tuning into an square wave radio transmitter

Hello. I was wondering how to filter out a 1MHZ square wave radio signal. I got the sender working correcly. I am sendi...
3 comments posted 21yrs
posted by a-vinje
3 comments posted 21yrs posted by a-vinje

threshold voltage and comparator

how does the treshold voltage change the transfer curve of a comparator?
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posted by stillbreezy
3 comments posted 21yrs posted by stillbreezy

ISP AVR programmer

Hi all, I would like to buy a programmer for my ATmega8 from ebay.com for example like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBa...
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posted by geronnimo
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by geronnimo

bandwidth and rise time

how would the bandwidth of an inverting amplifier with a gain of -10 affect the rise time of a square wave input?
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posted by stillbreezy
2 comments posted 21yrs posted by stillbreezy

Epoxy & microwaves?

Building a DIY antenna for 2.4 GHz. Need to support elements and bond components together. Are common epoxies non-absor...
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posted by me
14 comments posted 21yrs posted by me

Color Organ chip

Sometime in the last few weeks, somebody asked about building a color organ. Well, the 05.26.05 issue of Electronic Des...
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posted by NoSpam
0 comments posted 21yrs posted by NoSpam