18
PROJECTS and FEATURES
36 CONTROL YOUR WORLD 62
Home Automation — Part 4:
Build an X- 10 doggy dish.
■ By Michael Simpson
42 BUILD A FLOOD
DETECTION ALARM
Know when the water is
rising ... before it’s too late.
■ By Paul Florian
GOING SECURITY GEEK
ON PENETRATION TESTS
WITH IRA WINKLER
When is hacking legal?
When the company being
hacked hires the hacker.
■ By David Geer
46 THE MYSTERIOUS
MAGIC BOX
Examine the theory of
operation behind this
magical project. Plus,
finish assembly and testing.
■ By Vaughn D. Martin
and John Stabler
68 UNDERSTANDING
DIGITAL BUFFER, GATE,
AND LOGIC IC CIRCUITS
This month, digital inverter
and AND gate circuits are
covered.
■ By Ray Marston
60 BOOK REVIEW:
Hacking through Hardware
Hacking Projects for Geeks.
■ By Edward B. Driscoll
73 SONIC REALISM
Why can’t sound
reproduction sound real?
Find out here ...
■ By Gerard Fonte
MAY 2007
COLUMNS
08 TECHKNOWLEDGEY 2007
Events, advances, and news
from the electronics world.
12 PERSONAL ROBOTICS
Parameters on the fly — Part 3.
18 STAMP APPLICATIONS
Control virtually anything ...
virtually!
26 Q&A
Russ Kincaid offers his own
solutions to reader questions.
67 IN THE SPOTLIGHT
This month: Parallax.
80 THE DESIGN CYCLE
Configuration wizardry.
86 NEAR SPACE
The Near Space Ventures
webpage.
90 GETTING STARTED WITH PICs
The 8/14/20-pin PIC family.
DEPARTMENTS
06 READER FEEDBACK
30 NEW PRODUCTS
34 SHOWCASE
66 ELECTRO-NET
96 CLASSIFIEDS
98 NV BOOKSTORE
101 TECH FORUM
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