Circuit Cellar Issue 216 July 2008-PDF

Issue #216
July 2008
Theme: Internet & Connectivity

TASK MANAGER—Energy Costs Drive Design Ingenuity, by C. J. Abate, p. 4
NEW PRODUCT NEWS—edited by John Gorsky, p. 8
TEST YOUR EQ—p. 10
CROSSWORD—p. 93
’Net-Enabled Alarm Clock, by DJ Delorie, p. 12
INTELLIGENT ENERGY SOLUTIONS—LESSONS FROM THE TRENCHES: Living And Working Off The Grid: Part 1: Planning And Design, by George Martin. p. 22
Internet Information Retrieval: Target And Display Web Site Content, by Fernando Jordan, p. 30
Launch Control: Build A Coil Gun Controller And Launcher, by Andrew Sterian, p. 38
Card Connection: Magnetic Card Data Decoding And Transmission, by Carlo Tauraso, p. 46
Create A Modbus Slave, by Aubrey Kagan, p. 54
PSoC Design Techniques (Part 1): Build An Eight-Channel Mixer, by Chris Paiano, p. 62
Sound Effects Processing, by Robert Papp, p. 69
FROM THE BENCH—Electric Motor Technology: Theory, Construction, And Requirements, by Jeff Bachiochi, p. 74
SILICON UPDATE—MIPS For The Masses, by Tom Cantrell, p. 80
PRIORITY INTERRUPT—A Real Rube Goldberg Solution, by Steve Ciarcia , p. 96