Nautilus

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The first artificial neural networks weren’t abstractions inside a computer, but actual physical systems made of whirring motors and big bundles of wire. Here I’ll describe how you can build one for yourself using SnapCircuits, a kid’s electronics ki

Los Angeles Times

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By "smashing" proteins and looking at the broken bits, scientists at Rutgers University say they've discovered four basic building blocks that can be stacked like Legos to build all kinds of different proteins. The results described in Proceedings of

How It Works

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There are two basic types of integrated circuit: analogue and digital. Analogue, or linear circuits are the most basic and are used typically in electronic devices that collect or send signals, such as microphones. In this example, an analogue circui

CQ Amateur Radio

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As this installment of “The Ham Notebook” is being written, I am in month two of the COVID-19 mandatory work-from-home lockdown. Like everyone in this situation, this completely changed how we live and do ordinary, everyday things — including persona

Music Tech Focus

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Details Manufacturer Plugin Alliance/Black Box Analog Design Price $249 Contact via website Web www.pluginalliance.com Minimum system requirements Windows 7, Intelcompatible CPU with SSE2 instruction set (P4-compatible or higher, min 2GHz recommended

CQ Amateur Radio

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Just about every electronics maker, builder-ham or other electronics tinkerer has a stash of new and used parts, assemblies and discarded (rescued) gadgets. Including me (see Photo A). But having all this stuff doesn’t do anyone any good if parts are

Stereophile

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When I first read Mikey’s introduction to this review, I was struck by his matter-of-fact statement that class-D isn’t digital. Really? Are you sure? Yes, I know the D in class- D doesn’t stand for digital, but that doesn’t mean the technology isn’t

Hi-Fi Choice

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What’s the difference between the Aria MK2 and the MK3? Well, you’re looking at it. On the inside, nothing. On the outside, what Rega calls its “latest half-width, custom-designed case to give the Aria a fresh new look”. Very smart it is, too, in a P

Hi Fi News

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While many high-end audio manufacturers proclaim the benefits of simple circuitry and short signal paths, T+A is happy to say of its new P 3100 HV preamplifier – based on the P 3000 HV [HFN Sep ’14] – that it has a ‘new, very complex circuit board la

The Shed

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The BBC Micro Bit project we will share with you this issue is more complex than the previous ones. This time we will explore the use of micro DC motors controlled by the Micro Bit and build a four-wheel cardboard robot controlled by a smartphone. To

How It Works

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When the greatest inventions of the 20th century are weighed up for their merits there are few people who think of the integrated circuit. They often name some of the devices which it has enabled – which isn’t difficult, as they are numerous – but ra

CQ Amateur Radio

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Although it is common to synonymize (is that a word?) analog with linear, there are many nonlinear analog functions, the most common being the logarithmic amplifier. In our last installment, we explored the Gilbert Cell, a most useful non-linear anal

Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

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Deterioration is a fact of life with old classic motorcycles, and more than anything it is the electrical systems that suffer the most. The components most vulnerable are generators and ignition systems where heat and corrosion conspire over time to

Stereophile

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CH Precision’s massive, versatile, technologically sophisticated, 165lb M1.1 power amplifier ($54,000 configured for stereo) can easily crush your foot if you’re not careful when installing it. But the more important consideration is this: Can this c

APC

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This issue we’ll learn how to use the Explorer HAT Pro to work with analogue electronics by creating two projects. First we create a simple light-detecting nightlight, then we create an electronic candle that we can blow out. But first we need to set

Futurity

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Engineering principles that humans developed only 150 years ago first evolved in biological circuitry that controls cell growth, research finds. In the last 150 years, engineers have developed and mastered ways to stabilize dynamic systems, without l

Amateur Photographer

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The new Sony Alpha 1 appears to be a virtuoso exemplar of the capabilities of Sony Semiconductor Solution’s stacked sensor technology. As the name suggests, this works by allowing multiple semiconductor wafers to be stacked. Its main advantage is tha

CQ Amateur Radio

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Afew years ago, a friend gave me a half-dozen early LED displays, and they cried out to be used in a frequency counter and digital dial for single-conversion receivers (they were very specific). And so they were, as Photo A illustrates. To be consist

The Shed

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In this issue, I explore the development steps of what I call ‘The Christmas Joy Spreading Machine’. This is possibly the most complicated project I have ever made and it is based on the BBC Micro Bit. The original idea was to make a machine using ca

The Shed

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In this issue we show how to upcycle a rotary phone from the end of the ’60s, which with the help of a Raspberry Pi and a few other electronic components will become a ‘Pi rotary smartphone’. In the next issue we will look at how many projects can be

CQ Amateur Radio

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When the ultimate electrical isolation from input to output in any transmission scheme is required, it is hard to beat a fiber optic link. The use of a beam of light, traveling through a glass (or plastic) fiber, totally isolates one end of the link

Hi-Fi Choice

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Canada is mining a rich seam of hi-fi lately. Like fellow brand Paradigm (see p64), Anthem may be best known for its pedigree multi-channel components in home theatre circles, but increasingly two-channel hi-fi purists are singing its praises. At £5,

Linux Format

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In our look at the various types of logic gates, we restricted ourselves to gates with two inputs. However, you’ll remember that the sample gates in the online simulator initially had three gates, but we removed some of the circuitry to turn them int

CQ Amateur Radio

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While surfing the internet, as I do from time to time, I came across several articles relating to energy harvesting. For those of you who are not familiar with this topic, simply stated, it is obtaining electrical energy from situations where it is n

Hi Fi News

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Open-back electrostatic headphone and DAC/energiser Manufactured by: Warwick Acoustics Ltd, Nuneaton, UK Supplied by: Warwick Acoustics Ltd Telephone: 01247 722 0377 Web: www.warwickacoustics.com Price: £20,000 Electrostatic headphones are like royal

Maximum PC

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YOU’LL NEED THIS INTERNET BROWSER www.falstad.com/circuit LOGISIM www.church.com/logisim MOST LIKELY, the processor in your PC has upwards of a billion transistors. Trying to get your head around the workings of such a complicated electronic circuit

CQ Amateur Radio

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I confess. I am attracted to inexpensive workbench test gadgets, especially when a gadget proves to be useful and accurate. The operative word in the preceding sentence is “inexpensive.” I’m always looking for an innovative “good deal” in electronic

The Shed

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For our second vintage appliance upcycling project in The Shed, I decided to work on an iconic Italian appliance from the mid ’70s, a Brionvega desk lamp. When I bought this lamp I was captivated by the design, so I decided to upcycle it, retaining t

Linux Format

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Most likely, the processor in your PC has upwards of a billion transistors. Trying to get your head around the workings of such a complicated electronic circuit might, therefore, seems a daunting task. Yet helping you to understand what goes on insid

Audio Technology

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Review: Mark Davie I’ve been toying with an Arduino board lately. Not building anything, mind you, just picking it up occasionally and turning it over in my hands, pondering what analogue interfaces I can digitally wrangle with the tweeny-priced proc