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DECEMBER 2006
PROJECTS and
FEATURES
08
48
36 OPTOELECTRONIC GIFT
WRAPPING
Give the gift of “glow” to family
and friends.
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58
36
By J. Ronald and
Lynne R. Eyton
ON THE COVER ...
42 FURNACE BACKUP
Be able to turn up the heat next
time the power goes off.
■
Bob the Balancing Bot
Page 74
By Kenton Chun
48 BUILD AN EAST-WEST
COMPASS
This project will give you good
directions.
■
By Richard Panosh
COLUMNS DEPARTMENTS
52 LED WEATHER-PROOF
RUBBER ENCLOSURE
“Erase” away chances of weather
affecting your outdoor LEDs.
■
08 TECHKNOWLEDGEY 2006
Events, advances, and news
from the electronics world.
06 READER FEEDBACK
By John Mastromono
28 NEW PRODUCTS
12 STAMP APPLICATIONS
Celebrating the Season:
Build a Menorah.
58 IS LITHIUM-ION SAFE?
The recent major battery recall
has raised concern for
consumers. Is it justified?
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34 SHOWCASE
By Isidor Buchmann
18 Q&A
Overcurrent indicator, home
energy sniffer, sonic snow pole,
plus more.
56 NEWSBYTES
61 LOOKING AT THE OTHER
THREE-QUARTERS OF THE
WORLD THROUGH ORION
Discover who’s “LOOKING” to
design a cyberinfrastructure to
unite ocean floor observatories
into an integrated info grid.
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74 PERSONAL ROBOTICS
Building a Balancing Bot on a
Budget — Part 2.
68 ELECTRO-NET
94 CLASSIFIEDS
81 GETTING STARTED WITH PICs
Christmas Music.
98 NVBOOKSTORE
By David Geer
84 OPEN COMMUNICATION
Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing.
100 TECH FORUM
70 DSP FOR THE PC
Learn how to create Digital Signal
Processing programs using an
open source library available for
Windows and Linux.
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88 THE DESIGN CYCLE
Zigbee for the Evil Genius.
105 ADVERTISERS INDEX
By Al Williams
Nuts & Volts (ISSN 1528-9885/CDN Pub Agree#40702530) is published monthly for $24.95 per year
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