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Features

Enhance Your Debugging Tool Suite

by Kevin O’Connor

Combining logic analyzer decoders with an embedded software Manchester encoder creates yet another tool to enhance your debugging and diagnostic skills.

Review: Zeppelin Design Labs — Altura MIDI Theremin

by Craig Lindley

Play a theremin with a little help from a kit.

The Arduino Graphics Interface — Part 2

by Edward Andrews

Part 2 — Software Concepts and Support Library

Projects

Build an Analog-Style LED Clock — Part 1

by Robert Gill

Part 1 - The test circuit, using Charlieplexing to individually control 182 LEDs with only 14 I/O lines, and reading four pushbuttons by connecting them to the LED matrix with a handful of other discrete components.

Columns

Q&A
by Kristen McIntyre
Reader Questions Answered Here (03.2018)
Questions about targeted dunking, sensor inversion, and training a train.

The Ham’s Wireless Workbench
by H. Ward Silver
Working with High Voltages
Avoid the “gotchas” when working with high voltage.

The Design Cycle
by Fred Eady
ARMing a Postage Stamp-Sized LCD
ARM a Crystalfontz CFAL9664B-F-B1 graphic OLED display module.

TechKnowledgey
by Jeff Eckert
Events, Advances, and News (03.2018)
Information on current events, advances, and news in various technology fields.