April 2010

Tutorials

Basic Soldering Tips

Almost all the electronic circuits mentioned in this site are designed and built on a PCB board. But you cannot build these electronic circuits if you do not know the basics of soldering.  If you do not know to solder well, the solder joints will not be perfect and thus the circuit will have serious […]

Amplifier Circuits, Audio Circuits

Motional feed back amplifier

This versatile amplifier circuit is designed and submitted by Mr Seetharaman Subramanian from Chennai . The full credit of this article goes to him and we are very proud to publish this fabulous circuit here. Seetharaman’s description about the circuit. This concept has appeared long back in Practical Electronics a UK based Magazine. Based on

Audio Circuits

3 input microphone preamplifier

Decription. The circuit given here is of a three input mic mixer cum preamplifier using the IC LM348. The LM348 is a high gain, internally compensated quad operational amplifier with a class AB output stage. The IC has very low input supply current drain (0.6mA/ opamp) and operates from a dual power supply. Out of

Tutorials

Working of Electronic Ink (E-ink) Technology

“] Electronic Ink [E-ink We have seen the working of electronic displays like Liquid Crystal Displays, SED TV’s, and Touch screen technology and so on. Even though we rely mostly on monitors nowadays we must not forget the fact that the basic display mechanism is paper the early 105 AD when the Chinese invented it.

Tech News

Latest Stunning Pictures of the Sun by NASA

On February 11th, 2010, NASA launched a new spacecraft called the Solar Dynamics Observatory [SDO], which was designed to give more knowledge and clearer images of the Sun than any other spacecraft that has been launched before for this purpose. On April 21st, 2010, the scientists of NASA have quoted their experiment with the SDO

Audio Circuits

5 band graphic equalizer using LA3600

Description. The graphic equalizer shown here is based on the IC LA3600 from Sanyo Semiconductors. LA 3600 is a single integrated single Op-amp, 5 band graphic equalizer IC which is very suitable for applications like portable stereo, radio sets, home theater systems, car audio systems etc. The LA3600 can be operated from anything between 5

VLSI

Understanding FPGA and CPLD

Introduction In the earlier 60’s it was discrete logic used by electronic industry. The digital system would look like noodle like maze of wiring between components. Once it is built it will be difficult to do rework on it. Sometimes the designers would forget what they have designed for! Manufacturing such systems was very difficult

Digital Electronics

Implement Logic Gates

To know the basics of Logic Gates and their applications, click on the links below. TAKE A LOOK : LOGIC GATES TAKE A LOOK : HALF ADDER AND FULL ADDER TAKE A LOOK : FLIP FLOPS With the invention of Logic gates, we can design electronic circuits that can simply work as a calculator to

Remote Circuits

FM remote Encoder/Decoder

Description. Here is the circuit diagram of an FM remote encoder/decoder using the ICs RF600E and RF600D. These devices are designed to provide a high level of security and operates from anything between 2 to 6.6V DC. Various electronic circuits like remote control systems, remote alarm systems, anti theft alarms etc can be implemented using

Voltage Regulators

3A switching regulator

Description. When compared to linear voltage regulators the switching voltage regulators are much power efficient. In the case of linear voltage regulators the difference between the input and output voltage is just wasted and for switching regulators there is almost no such wastage and that’s why the switching regulators have great power efficiency ranging up

Digital Electronics

Master-Slave Flip Flop Circuit

Before knowing more about the master-slave flip flop you have to know more on the basics of a J-K flip flop and S-R flip flop. To know more about the flip flops, click on the link below. So in this article, we are learning in detail about Master Slave Flip Flops. We will see what

Audio Circuits

Baxendall tone control circuit

Description. This simple tone control circuit is designed based on the famous Baxendall tone control circuitry. The circuit given here can give a maximum cut or boost of around 12 dB at 10 KHz (treble) and 50Hz (bass). Also, both bass and treble can be independently adjusted. Transistor Q1 (BC109) and its associated components (R1,

Audio Circuits

Low cost Mic Mixer

Description This is the schematics of a low cost mic mixer that can be assembled from the components in your junk box.This two channel mike mixer is designed for handling high impedance dynamic microphones.Transistor Q1 can be any general purpose pnp transistor like BC177 or BC157B. Resistor R5 biases the transistor while R3 and R4

Digital Electronics

Triggering of Flip Flops

Flip Flop – Triggering Methods This article explains the basic pulse triggering methods like HIGH Level Triggering, LOW Level Triggering, POSITIVE edge triggering and NEGATIVE edge triggering with the help of symbolic representation. The basic principle of clock pulse transition is also explained. To know the basics of flip flops and its different types click

Digital Electronics

Flip Flops in Digital Electronics

In this article, let’s learn about different types of flip flops used in digital electronics. Basic Flip Flops in Digital Electronics This article deals with the basic flip flop circuits like S-R Flip Flop, J-K Flip Flop, D Flip Flop, and T Flip Flop along with truth tables and their corresponding circuit symbols. Before going

Digital Electronics

Half Adder and Full Adder

Half Adder and Full Adder Circuit Half Adder and Full Adder circuits is explained with their truth tables in this article. Design of Full Adder using Half Adder circuit is also shown. Single-bit Full Adder circuit and Multi-bit addition using Full Adder is also shown. Before going into this subject, it is very important to

Digital Electronics

What are Digital Logic Gates and their types?

A digital system is basically a binary world. One where the language is restricted to 1s and 0s. Therefore, to make the best of these 1s and Os, logic gates form the foundation to build a digital system that we know today. Hence, if you are keen on understanding digital electronics, you must be clear

Digital Electronics

Boolean Logic

Boolean Logic In this article, the basics of Boolean Logic is explained Boolean Logic or Boolean Algebra is the description of a set of objects using two basic logic’s – TRUE & FALSE. The relation between these two logics is used to figure out the truth of an expression. Boolean Logic is considered to be

Tutorials

Ink-free Mobile Photo Printer Technology

We tend to store all photos digitally rather than keeping a hard copy of them. Whenever we need to see them or show it to our friends, we take it from our mobile and show them. All we do is waste more of our digital space. There is nothing satisfactory like watching and enjoying our

Counter Circuits, Counters

Static 0 to 9 display

Description. The circuit shown here is of a simple 0 to 9 display that can be employed in a lot of applications. The circuit is based on asynchronous decade counter 7490(IC2), a 7 segment display (D1), and a seven segment decoder/driver IC 7446 (IC1). The seven segment display consists of 7 LEDs labelled ‘a’ through

Tutorials

Working of Fingerprint Scanner

For the past few years fingerprint scanners were considered to be a very costly and high end technology. We have seen it only in thriller and sci-fi movies. But now, these devices have been popping up in almost all places like offices, police stations and also our laptops. You also get to buy fingerprint USB

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