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LED And Luminaire Testing Can’t Be Taken Lightly

Standards and tests are essential to evaluate the quality and longevity of LEDs and luminaires. So test and measurement solutions have to keep pace...

Design And Test Challenges Of Frequency-Hopping Radios

The erratic behaviour of frequency-hopped signals makes them difficult to capture, verify and measure. Hence more effective tools and processes are required to design...

Looking Into The Brain For Lie Detection

Though the reliability of brain scanning for lie detection is still under question, these tests are fast becoming popular with the crime investigating teams....

MULTI-SWITCH DOORBELL WITH INDICATORS

Here’s the circuit of a multi-switch input musical doorbell (shown in Fig.1). The circuit is built around the popular and less expensive quad D-latch...

KNOCK ALARM

This circuit (Fig. 1), used in conjunction with a thin piezoelectric plate,senses the vibration generated on knocking a surface (such as a door or...

Night Lamps

Here are two night lamp circuits using LEDs. One could be used as a night-vision clock and the other as a TV lamp. Both...

Musical Water Shower

Won’t it be nice to have music playing in the background all the while when you take a shower? This simple circuit does the...

Traffic Baton

In small towns, there are no traffic lights and the police regulate the traffic with hand signals. Since their hand signals may not be...

Traffic Controller

This simple traffic controller can be used to teach children rudiments of traffic rules. The circuit (shown in Fig. 1) uses readily available components. It...

Hot-Water-Ready Alarm

Electric kettles turn off automatically when water has boiled. What if the boiler beeps to alert you when your water has boiled? The tripping...