Today I got the new Digikey catalog delivered at the university. It must be the season, during recent weeks also Elfa (you remember: the company which delivers cable by the metre…) and RS-Components have mailed their new paper catalogs. I still prefer paper catalogs in spite of their environmental impact, because there is simply no… Continue reading The new Digikey catalog is here!
Month: 2011-04-14
Troubleshooting against all odds II
The hot wire mystery I like to build my prototype electronic circuits on perf- or stripboard after having tested it on a breadboard. Actually I would have loved to have breadboards around when I started with electronics some 25 years ago, but it was not before the late 1990s that I got familiar with this… Continue reading Troubleshooting against all odds II
Troubleshooting against all odds I
The parallel port mystery Have you ever used or considered using the parallel port of your computer to control your own electronics project? Well, I have, and this was not my first project. But this time I ran into trouble… With modern versions of Windows it is not easy to get control over the parallel… Continue reading Troubleshooting against all odds I
Electric heating in the 21st century?
Elektroheizungen im 21. Jahrhundert? Zumindest wenn man einer Firma Glauben schenkt…