Hobby DIY Electronics

Get the Plan Drawings and Make your own Morse Key with a Sounder from J.E. Howell Model Engine Plans.The full size plans will allow you to make an exact replica of the key and sounder.

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Pacific Antenna – Affordable QRP Antennas and Kits at exceptional value. Quality, affordable kits along with support through the build process and beyond.

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An e-magazine for newcomers and everyone who likes to be involved with electronics., aimed at teaching electronics from the beginning with courses, tests and interactive questions.

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PCB Design Tutorial – As published in Silicon Chip magazine Oct-Dec 2003. A very comprehensive three part tutorial on how to professionally design and lay out PCBs.

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When I was teaching electronics I was always creating lessons and designing simple projects for my students. I don’t have students anymore, but the activity is still fun for me.

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Radioing.com, the Ham’s Radio. Riding the airwaves with amateur (ham) radio is one of the most interesting and rewarding of all hobbies.

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This site contains popular-science style articles describing many aspects of electrochemistry. New articles are added at irregular intervals, and all articles are periodically updated as recent developments occur in the field.

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A nice DMM is the first thing you should own. Have one for High Voltage and High Energy and another for Workbench Testing.

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Wilko J. Hollemans PA3BWK – “Practice SENDING very fast but ACCURATELY – this in itself will improve your ability to copy fast code.

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All of man’s progress has stemmed from ideas, ideas held by men and women who pioneer new concepts. The provocative ideas of yesterday are the realities of today that make our daily tasks easier, our lives more interesting.

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TRS-80 Computer Whiz Kids – appeared in 1984. Eight issues in all are known to have been published, the last appearing in 1991.

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Electronic circuits easy to realize and although each circuit comes with some essential information.

Bubblegate Circuits of Domenico Di Mario

Multiple led flasher SCR inverter, Geomagnetic field detector, Sound triggered flash, Seismic detector, Electronic attenuator, Windscreen loop aerial, Ultra low frequency receiver, Single led flasher, Mains frequency meter, 10A car battery charger, Light bulb timer ….

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This is an old article from Practical Electronics 1979. It shows the input circuits and digital ranging controls too. Using 7107 chip for display it is an excellent project to build even today.

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If you want to build electronic circuits, you need to connect the components of your circuit somehow. If you expect to make your circuit work more than just a few times, you need a solid way of connecting them.

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CARACA is a home automation project based on a net of interconnected programmable circuits suited to perform different tasks like switch on/off appliances, decode commands from Ir remote control units, control thermostats, measure temperature and more.

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This centralized system can control almost all of the lights in my home, a few appliances, the garden irrigation, some window treatments, the Audio/Video system, the security system, and the HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning).

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A virtual 8051 is interfaced with virtual peripherals such as a keypad, motor, display, UART, etc. The student can write 8051 assembly code, step through the code and observe the effects each line has on the internal memory and the external peripherals.

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The PICList is a collection of people interested in the Microchip PIC and other similar processors who have requested that email sent to the PICList email address be forwarded to them.

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VeeCAD takes a schematic generated netlist and assists you to build a layout – but on stripboard (Veroboard). The usual design tools are provided: netlist import, component footprint definition, component positioning, wiring and connectivity check.

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A technical library for the hobbyist and experimenter. – Charles Wenzel

TechLib – Electronic Experimenter Records

• World’s Smallest Geiger Counter
• Karen’s Mic.

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