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Mikrokopter
This is the seventh article in a series about the Elektorlive-event. Mikrokopter by Holger Buss and Ingo Busker a great project. It is a miniature helicopter equipped with four propellors. The heart of the system is a small controller board with an AVR microcontroller from Atmel: An ATMEGA 644 working on a 20 Mhz clock [...]
Shapeways
This is the sixth article in a series about the Elektorlive-event. The Eindhoven company Shapeways specializes in “3D-printing”. You can upload a 3D-design to their website and they will “print” it for you. That way any shape can be produced.In the pictures you can see some phantasy objects giving a demonstration of the possibilities, but [...]
Audio
This is the fifth article in a series about the Elektorlive-event Elektor has published many articles on audio amplifiers over the years. I started reading the magazine in 1974, but this is an even older design: The “Edwin-amplifier” from 1971. Harry Baggen had borrowed it from Jan Buiting‘s collection to be able to show “how [...]
Retrotronics
This is the fourth article in a series about the Elektorlive-event. Of course I went to see Jan Buiting, who did a talk on “retrotronics”: That is vintage electronics. He had brought lots and lots of electronic equipment from the past sixty years and invited the audience to select which device interested them. He had [...]
Fiber Optics
This is the third article in a series about the Elektorlive-event. The second lecture was about fiber optics. More and more people know about this, as more and more homes are connected to the Internet (AND to cable TV AND to the phone) through optical fiber. This technique is called FTTH (Fiber To The Home). [...]
Elektor Internet Radio
This is the second article in a series about the Elektorlive-event. The first lecture I visited was about the Elektor Internet Radio (EIR) and the speaker was Antoine Authier. Most of the speaking was done by Harald Kipp, who developed the hardware and software. The hardware is the Ethernut 3 card, which is equipped with [...]
Elektorlive
Today I visited the Elektorlive event in the Evoluon in Eindhoven.Some 1500 people had pre-registered, but the whether conditions were not optimal. It was the first snow day in this winter. But more than 1000 people did show up! Of course most of the people there were men. There were only an handful of women [...]