Circuit Cellar Issue 080 March 1997-PDF

ISSUE 80
March 1997
Theme: HOME AND BUILDING AUTOMATION

Task Manager—Bust Bees, by Ken Davidson, 2.
Reader I/O, 6.
New Product News, 8.
Building A CEBus-Compliant Product, by Adrian Dunn, 12.
XRaCS—The X-10 Radio-Control System, by Chris Arndt, 20.
HCS II-Compatible Automated Lawn-Irrigation System, by John Morley, 26.
MicroSeries—Standards for Electromagnetic Compliance Testing—Part 2: Radiated and Conducted Emissions Testing, by Joe DiBartolomeo, 66.
From the Bench—Magneto-Inductive Direction Finding, by Jeff Bachiochi, 74.
Silicon Update—MUSIC to Soothe the Savage Bits, by Tom Cantrell, 78.
ConnecTime—Excerpts from the Circuit Cellar BBS, conducted by Ken Davidson, 84.
Priority Interrupt—Beware of Complacent Convenience, by Steve Ciarcia, 96.
EMBEDDED PC SECTION
Nouveau PC, edited by Harv Weiner, 36.
Get On The Bus!—The Evolution of the STD Bus to 32 Bits, by Mike Baylis, 41.
A Networking Primer—Part 2: LAN Media and Various Protocols, by Bill Payne, 46.
PC/104 Quarter—Selecting Analog I/O Boards for Embedded Systems, by Jonathan Miller, 52.
Applied PCs—Vinegar or Champagne?—BBS Software Managing Remote Data Acquisition and Control, by Fred Eady, 58.