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CAR-REVERSING HORN WITH FLASHER

Here is a simple circuit that starts playing the car horn whenever your car is in reverse gear. The circuit (refer Fig. 1) employs...

Stereo Headphone Amplifier

Here is an inexpensive circuit for a stereo amplifier to drive a low-impedance headphone set. The circuit uses a few cheap transistors (BC547 and...

Whisker for Robots

Whiskers for robots are simple switch-type sensors that work like an animal’s whiskers detecting nearby objects in the environment. When disturbed, the sensor sends...

TRANSISTORISED LOGIC PROBE FOR TTL

A logic probe is a handheld pen-like probe used for analysing and troubleshooting the logical states '0' or '1' of a digital circuit. While...

INVERTER FOR SOLDERING IRON

Here is a simple but inexpensive inverter for using a small soldering iron (25W, 35W, etc) in the absence of mains supply. It uses...

LED And Luminaire Testing Can’t Be Taken Lightly

Standards and tests are essential to evaluate the quality and longevity of LEDs and luminaires. So test and measurement solutions have to keep pace...

Design And Test Challenges Of Frequency-Hopping Radios

The erratic behaviour of frequency-hopped signals makes them difficult to capture, verify and measure. Hence more effective tools and processes are required to design...

Looking Into The Brain For Lie Detection

Though the reliability of brain scanning for lie detection is still under question, these tests are fast becoming popular with the crime investigating teams....

MULTI-SWITCH DOORBELL WITH INDICATORS

Here’s the circuit of a multi-switch input musical doorbell (shown in Fig.1). The circuit is built around the popular and less expensive quad D-latch...

KNOCK ALARM

This circuit (Fig. 1), used in conjunction with a thin piezoelectric plate,senses the vibration generated on knocking a surface (such as a door or...