In today’s modern world, we find a wide range of appliances managed by handheld remote controls, whose decoder function historically has often been provided by a dedicated chip. However, given the ...

As you might have noticed, the 38-KHz pulse generator is built around the evergreen timer chip NE555P (IC1). Here, the RC components (R5-C3-P1) set the astable frequency to drive the infrared light ...

Although we’re sure they exist, we wouldn’t want to meet anybody that can’t look back fondly on the halcyon days of youth that included playing hide-and-go-seek. Some kids never grow up and continue ...

After plugging the new DVD player into the s-video connector of the big screen TV and seeing the image, I knew there was no going back to composite video. A few weeks later I purchased a programmable ...