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Spring reverb tanks explained and compared
Many musicians like to use reverberators to modulate their audio signals. They can enhance the experience
for the listening audience by adding ‘depth’ and ‘liveliness’ to the output of a particular instrument.
Here is an in-depth explanation of how they work and a comparison of different types.
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Getting started with benchtop data acquisition
The evolution of the PC and serial bus has brought a lot of capability into to the hands of the hobbyist
and experimenter at an affordable level. There are a lot of companies now making data acquisition sensors,
interface modules, and driver and analysis software available...
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Design And Build Your Own Tube Guitar Amp
If you’re not an electric guitar player or if you’re just starting out, you might ask why anyone would build
anything with tubes. Aren’t vacuum tubes an obsolete technology? Well, yes and no...
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University at Buffalo club talks robots...
Recently I was listening to my radio and heard an announcement about the University at Buffalo Robotics Club
demonstrating at our city science museum. It grabbed my interest right away and I contacted them to answer
some questions for an article. Colin Lea, the club's current president, responded and was happy to
participate with the help of his fellow club members...
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Unusual Components and Applications
Negisters, Unijunction transistors, Precision Resistors, and Hall Effect Devices.
Nothing has impacted our lives more than the electronic devices we now use in our everyday lives.
More and more, sophisticated devices are becoming commonplace and research is constantly adding to
the list. Some of the new devices are the result of new technology...
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Is chaos having an effect on your circuit building?
It is said that there is nothing new in the universe and nothing is
further from the truth. Every nanosecond is unique and nothing is ever
repeated. No matter how many times you do anything, that seems repetitive, it is not.
Every physical element has changed from one moment to the next...
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Build a ‘T-40’ Solid State Analyzer
If you have ever put together an electronic circuit with meticulous care, only
to find out that it doesn’t work, then you know the frustration of being an
electronics experimenter. Unfortunately this marks the end of some budding
careers and it presents quite an annoying problem to the professional engineer...
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How to Control Electronic Circuits Using a Computer and the BASIC Programming Language
Introduction
There is nothing more satisfying then writing
a computer program, executing it, and watching it run; hopefully falsely. It’s
akin to the same feeling you get when you create a new electrical circuit and
watch it operate for the first time. It's that feeling of creation. Seeing
something, that was once a thought, being manifested into the material world.
Saying, 'this didn't exist until I created it'. Electrical engineering and
computer science is all about that; bringing something into existence purely
through will power and thought. The two disciplines are separate and are taught
differently, each having its own college and/or university degree...
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