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MARCH 2006
PROJECTS
and FEATURES
COVER
STORY
38 20 I/O PIN DATA
ACQUISITION BOARD
Easily incorporate the power of
your PC into any project.
■ By James Mobley
44 BUILD THE SOUND LAB
MINI-SYNTH SOUND
SYNTHESIZER
Analog synthesizers are enjoying
a resurgence of popularity, so why
not build your own?
■ By Raymond Wilson
ON THE COVER ...
Customize your projects with
this data acquisition board.
COLUMNS DEPARTMENTS
06 READER FEEDBACK
56 GET MOTIVATED
Build this cool interface to work
with your exercise bike.
■ By Michael Simpson
32 SHOWCASE
34 NEW PRODUCTS
62 NEWS BYTES
67 LEAVING THE CRADLE
Colorful entrepreneurs fund
commercial manned spaceflight.
■ By Edward Driscoll
76 NV BOOKSTORE
96 CLASSIFIEDS
72 RESISTORS: TYPES AND
APPLICATIONS
Learn about the common types
of resistors and their special
characteristics.
■ By H. Ward Silver
08 TECKNOWLEDGEY 2006
Events, advances, and news
from the electronics world.
12 STAMP APPLICATIONS
Wading the BS1 debug stream.
20 Q&A
Why loudspeakers are different,
phone busy alert, T-Bird tail
lights, and more.
26 THE DESIGN CYCLE
More fun with Freescale’s
microcontrollers.
84 LET’S GET TECHNICAL
Some fun with speech
synthesis.
90 NEAR SPACE
A martian near space launch.
100 TECH FORUM
104 ELECTRO-NET
105 ADVERTISERS INDEX
78 GETTING STARTED WITH PICs
PIC-to-PC communication.
■ By Chuck Hellebuyck
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