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JANUARY 2006
PROJECTS
and FEATURES
32 AN AUXILIARY RC
CONTROL UNIT
Buddy up on your next flight.
■ By Paul J. Weijers
38 WEATHER PROJECTS FOR THE
ELECTRONIC ENTHUSIAST
Electronic instrument shelters
and rain chimes.
■ By J. Ronald Eyton
ON THE COVER ...
The “Blame it on CanadArm”
near space version
of the real thing.
Check out the Near Space
column starting on
Page 84.
44 THE PERCEPTRON CIRCUIT
Create your very own electronic
analog neuron to impress your
nerdy friends.
■ By Christopher McCarley
COLUMNS DEPARTMENTS
06 READER FEEDBACK
30 NEW PRODUCTS
57 ANALOG MUSIC
SYNTHESIZERS
A do-it-yourself primer to bridge
the gap between technology
and art.
■ By Thomas Henry
50 NEWS BYTES
52 SHOWCASE
54 NV BOOKSTORE
68 DATA PROCESSING USING
SCAM — PART 4
Implementing SCAM: Building
the SCAM basic blocks.
■ By Gamal Ali Labib
66 ELECTRO-NET
80 CLASSIFIEDS
94 TECH FORUM
74 GETTING STARTED WITH PICs
Good news! It isn’t that difficult
and it doesn’t have to cost a
bunch of money to get started
with microcontrollers.
■ By Chuck Hellebuyck
08 TECKNOWLEDGEY 2006
Events, advances, and news
from the electronics world.
12 Q&A
Kick off the new year with a
potpourri of circuits.
18 STAMP APPLICATIONS
Playstation robot controller.
24 LET’S GET TECHNICAL
Why I am glad my computer
crashed.
84 NEAR SPACE
The “Blame it on CanadArm“
robotic arm.
90 IN THE TRENCHES
Stress.
97 ADVERTISERS INDEX
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