Nuts and Volts - 05.2017

Nuts & Volts is the No.1 magazine for those seriously interested in electronics. There now remain only a handful of magazines written for the electronics community with Nuts & Volts being the highest readership, longest running electronics publication left in the US today. And we still have readers and advertisers that have been with us since the early 80s. Nuts & Volts is written for the hands-on hobbyist, design engineer, technician, and experimenter. The diversity of subjects appeals to all levels of experience and spans such topics as amateur robotics, circuit design, lasers, computer control, home automation, data acquisition, new technology, DIY projects, electronic theory, analog, and myriad microcontrollers.

*... Cooperative Multitasking in PASM. When we think of multitasking with a Propeller, we tend to think about running multiple cogs — it's easy to launch a new cog when we need to run another task. * SCOPE OFFERS DIFFERENTIAL CHANNELS. Pico Technology introduces the PicoScope 4444 high resolution differential oscilloscope. This instrument features four true differential input channels and a range of accessories for measurements from millivolt * Restoring the World’s First Transistor Radio. When Texas Instruments developed a process to mass produce transistors in the early 1950s, they wanted to show the advantages over tubes to spur marketing. The main benefits of the devices were their small size and low power requirements, so they decided a transistor pocket radio would be a good product to introduce the technology to the public. They contracted I.D.E.A. (Industrial Development Engineering Associates) of Indiana to produce the first transistor radio under their Regency brand. The TR-1 pocket radio was introduced just before Christmas 1954 and sold for $49.95. Of course, the battery was “not included.” ...*

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