Nuts and Volts Magazine
Features
Here’s a quick beginner-friendly tutorial that shows you how to interface and read data with the popular serial protocol, I2C.
Designing a softcore using the Zilog Z8 Encore! (a.k.a., eZ8) to learn more about VHDL (VHSIC hardware description language), FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays), and microprocessor cores themselves.
Projects
Build a flight controller that can be used in near space ballooning projects. Up next, the software.
Experimenting with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).
Build on previous ESP8266 projects to add a customizable world clock to your arsenal of time keepers.
Columns
The Spin Zone
by Jon McPhalen
A Block On the Old Chip
BlocklyProp is a fun and easy way to build a Propeller program — piece by piece — using blocks.
The Ham’s Wireless Workbench
by H. Ward Silver
The Solar Eclipse and Ham Radio
Getting ready to follow the on-air activity that will come this August 2017 when we have a total eclipse of the sun.
The Design Cycle
by Fred Eady
Put on a PiFace
Working with PiFace and a RAD tool called B4J.
Q&A
by Kristen McIntyre
Reader Questions Answered Here (07.2017)
Find answers to questions on a simple current source; a block heater power indicator; and Arduinos and LEDs - redux.
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