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An open door or See how to turn an Arduino Due and a leftover analog window, a tripped laser beam, a pressure change on a oscilloscope into a high resolution computer graphics pressure plate, a proximity sensor, etc., could all be display. converted into a text message warning. ■ By Ed Andrews WA9UQN ■ By Mirza Kolakovic 30 Light Bulbs, LEDs, and Circuit 19 Rebuilding a Tektronix THS7X0 Junctions Portable We’ll take a look at some specific electrical properties of both light bulbs and LEDs, and use them to discuss Oscilloscope junctions in DC circuits. Battery Pack ■ By Tom Bensky When batteries fail, they can 36 A Digital Analog — Part 4 be replaced or rebuilt, but it’s This installment in a usually at considerable recurring series expense. Here’s one examines the more application where a very complex circuits expensive battery pack can be from 555 Timer IC easily rebuilt at a fraction of Circuits by Forrest the replacement cost, Mims, which are returning the device to useful variations on audio portable service. oscillators. ■ By Kevin O’Connor ■ By Larry Cicchinelli Columns 06 Q&A 52 The Design Cycle Reader Questions Answered Here Advanced Techniques for Design Topics discussed this month: Engineers • Neuter the Spray Smartphone App Programming for • A Clearly Better Baby Monitor Remote Control 09 Open Communication This month, we’ll add Basic for iPhone (B4I) and Basic for Android (B4R) to your Design The Latest in Networking and Cycle, and put your iPhone to work as a Wireless Technologies remote control device. We’ll write the iPhone Connected Cars are Coming code using B4I and code up an I/O pin switch Cars are already loaded with communications server using an inexpensive WEMOS D1 mini technology. AM, FM, and satellite radios are and B4R. common, as is a GPS receiver for the navigation system. In the coming years, we’ll be seeing new wireless systems incorporated into every vehicle for improving Departments safety and for aiding in the implementation of self-driving cars. Here’s an update on this communications 05 DEVELOPING 46 NV WEBSTORE PERSPECTIVES 60 TECH FORUM technology. Electronics Padawans 64 CLASSIFIEDS 12 NEW PRODUCTS 64 ELECTRO-NET 48 Near Space 13 SHOWCASE 64 AD INDEX Approaching the Final Frontier Total Solar Eclipse Near Space Flight: Part 2 Subscription Information A lot of data was collected on my eclipse near space Nuts & Volts — PO Box 15277 flight; unfortunately, not as much as I hoped (some North Hollywood, CA 91615-9218 experiments failed to record data at the appropriate time). 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