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Table of Contents
Task Manager
What's Your
Thing?, by C.J. Abate
Priority Interrupt
A Home Control Event
Worth Remembering, by Steve Ciarcia
New Product News, edited by John Gorsky
Modular
Wireless Tracking System
John Caruana, Doug
Irvine, Matthew Quenet, & Chris Cheng
Children, vehicles,
and animals all have something in common: they are
always on the move. With this modular wireless tracking
system, you can keep tabs on the moving objects
of your choice. The system features a GPS module,
a digital compass, and an LCD. p. 14
Keywords: Wireless, tracking, GPS, LCD, compass,
PIC18F458, PIC18F452, HP3, EM-402, HM55B
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Feature Article
RFID Security System
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by Craig
Ross & Ricardo Goto
Craig and Ricardo
designed an RFID-based proximity security
system for use with identification cards.
The system communicates with an administrator
PC via a serial communications link and HyperTerminal.
p. 24
Keywords: RFID,
security, proximity, serial, PC, ID card,
passive, antenna, DuoProx II, ATmega32, amplifier,
filter, microID
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DSP-Based
Vehicle Monitoring
Chris Hiszpanski
Chris’s iTrack
DSP-based vehicle-monitoring system features remote
cellular control. You can use your cell phone to
locate your vehicle and control everything from
its headlights to its door locks. p. 32
Keywords: DSP, vehicle, cell phone, iTrack, DSP56300,
DTMF, ADPCM, Suite56, ChameleonPOD, GDM, Lassen
iQ, TLV320AIC1106, voice compression
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Nixie Tube Propeller Clock
Peter Csaszar
Peter built
his Nixie Tube Propeller Clock (NTPC) around a Microchip
PIC16F84A microcontroller. The firmware was developed
in assembly language with the MPLAB development
suite. p. 40
Keywords: Clock, nixie tube, CD72P, PIC16F84A, floppy
drive, slip ring, DC/DC converter
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Build a Reflow Oven Controller
Ko Ihara &
Kashif Javed
If you’re having
trouble soldering small chips, try reflow soldering.
Ko and Kashif explain how to design a reflow soldering
oven that won’t burn a hole in your wallet. p.
46
Keywords: Reflow oven, controller, soldering, PWM,
ATmega32, LCD, ICL7660CPA, temperature, thermistor
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Wireless Firmware Updates
Alex Deyneko
Alex shows
you how to perform a remote firmware update. You
can use this technique for virtually all of your
mobile and robotics applications. Now you don’t
have to disassemble your devices and their physical
connections to CPU boards. p. 54
Keywords: Wireless, firmware update, AT91SAM7S, ATmega88,
ZigBee, XBee-Pro
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ABOVE THE GROUND PLANE
Battery Capacity
Discharge
Ed
Nisley
You can't
do much to improve batter design. You can, however,
do your best to understand their chemisty, how they
work, and how they behave under various loads. Ed
focuses on the discharge portion of the battery
cycle. p. 62
Keywords: Battery, capacity, discharge cycle, alkaline,
NiMH, Litium Ion, NiCd, resistance
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APPLIED PCs
Embedded Capacitive Touch Applications
Fred
Eady
Get ready to
build a capacitive touch application. Fred covers
the basics and then describes useful capacitive
touch sensing techniques for CapSense-enabled PSoC
devices. p. 68
Keywords: Capacitive sensing, CapSense, PSoC, CY3212, DAC,
PWM, CY8C21001, LCD, PSoC MiniProg
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FROM THE BENCH
Electric Movement and Control
Jeff Bachiochi
Electric power or gas? As the debate over the use
and abuse of energy resources rages on, Jeff weighs
in with some useful information about electric vehicles.
How do they operate, and how can you apply your
engineering skills to get a working design on the
road? Read on to learn how he mapped the energy
consumption for an electric bicycle. p. 74
Keywords: Electric
vehicles, hybrid, bike, I-Chopper, brushed DC motor,
battery, controller, MAX4081, PIC16F737
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SILICON UPDATE
Traveling Man
Tom Cantrell
Tom recently traveled to the Embedded Systems
Conference in Boston and the ARM Developers’ Conference
in Santa Clara. This month, he introduces many of
the new embedded technologies that may soon figure
prominently in your designs. p. 80
Keywords: Embedded
Systems Conference, ARM Developers' Conference,
Fido1100, ZNEO, ARM7, AT91SAM9264, LPC2300, STR710,
Cortex, RTOS, USB, ZigBee
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Crossword
Index of Advertisers
PREVIEW
March #200
Robotics
Robotic
Arm Control System
Servo Control
Inertial Rolling Robot
Animatronic System Control
Generic Modbus Simulator (Part 1): Theory & Preparation
A
Plethora of Projects
Then
and Now
LESSONS FROM THE TRENCHES
More "Hello World" Moving What You've
Learned to the Hardware
APPLIED PCs Build a PIC Platform
FROM THE BENCH Embedded USB
Breakthrough
SILICON UPDATE Code
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