Circuit Cellar Issue 031 February 1993-PDF

ISSUE 31

February 1993
Theme: HOME & BUILDING AUTOMATION

Editor’s INK—Increasing the Bandwidth, by Ken Davidson, 2.
Reader’s INK, 6.
New Product News, 8.
The Smart House System—A Technical Overview, by H. Brooke Stauffer, 14.
Switched-On CEBus: A CAL Interpreter, by Jeff Fisher, 24.
Temperature Monitoring—Add Some Temperature Sensors to the HCS II, by Steve Ciarcia, 32.
Putting the Wraps on CEBus, by Ken Davidson, 42.
Firmware Furnace—Blindsided by Technology: The ’386SX Embedded Firmware Project, by Ed Nisley, 48.
From the Bench—Simple Steps for Easy Positioning: Controlling Stepper Motors, by Jeff Bachiochi, 56.
Silicon Update—Smart LEDs: The Hard Way, the Soft Way, and the Right Way, by Tom Cantrell, 62.
Embedded Techniques—Embedded Timepieces, by John Dybowski, 70.
Patent Talk—Let Me Explain, by Russ Reiss, 78.
ConnecTime—Excerpts from the Circuit Cellar BBS, conducted by Ken Davidson, 84.
Steve’s Own INK—The Sample Game, by Steve Ciarcia, 96.