Electronics For You
February 2017 Issue
Vol. 49 No. 2
Tech Focus
Smart fabrics: The Comfortable Way To Wear Your Tech
Wearable devices are the rage today, and these are getting better day by day—lighter, cooler, trendier, smarter.
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Design
How Startups Can Hasten Design Without Burning Through Funds Developing a project from scratch is every designer’s dream. Unfortunately, most ideas are not designed for manufacturing from the beginning.
| Biotech
Biomedical Sensors Advancing Medical And Biotechnology Sensors are small, tiny and intelligent devices that are used to measure physical variables like temperature, humidity, gas, velocity, flow rate, pressure and so on.
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E-Payments
Digital Money For Digital India On November 8, 2016, at 20:15, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi addressed the nation through an unscheduled television speech.
| Automotive
Embedded Systems In Automobiles In today’s world, most electronic devices are based on embedded systems.
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Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning Basics For Newbies When we start the journey of life as new-born babies, we inherit the characteristics of our parents. We do not know what to do and when to do what.
| Make In India
Market Survey: Keeping An Eye On The Indian EMS Industry Growth Curve The Indian electronics industry has emerged as one of the fastest-growing segments in the country.
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EFY Plus DVD
Cloud And Big Data Software Join Hands With Engineering UMHDL (design and simulation) An education tool by nature, this software is aimed at making you an expert in learning hardware description language (HDL)...
| eStyle
Buyers Guide: Selecting The New Breed Of Smart Security Cameras Security cameras are handy devices that watch over your security perimeters.
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EFY Plus DVD
IndigoSCADA: A Small Footprint SCADA System Processes like controlling, supervising, collecting and analysing data and generating reports are crucial for any industry.
| EFY Plus DVD
GTKWave: Look At Your Waveforms, Openly That opening line aside, this article is less about the pun and more about the information.
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Computing
The Blue Brain Project: Unraveling The Brain’s Mystery The human brain is the most remarkable creation of God and also the reason behind human intelligence.
| Interview
Product Design: “The Real Sell Is In The Software And Its Transactional Model” We see a lot of startups and small design teams working on Internet of Things projects that aim to let people control household appliances from a smartphone. Is that really where the potential lies? Ralf Buehler, senior vice president, sales and marketing, element14, takes a look at this and other insights for successful product design in a conversation with Dilin Anand of EFY
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EFY Plus DVD
Calling PerfDesign For Perf Boards, Strip Boards A breadboard is like staple food to every electronics enthusiast.
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Diamonds to power quantum computers Scientists have developed a way to mass-produce tiny diamond crystals shaped like needles and threads, which may power the next generation of quantum computing.
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Industry News
Cabinet gives nod to incentives for electronics Union Cabinet has approved the amendment in Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme (M-SIPS) to incentivise investments...
| Do-It-Yourself
Vibration Sensor Presented here is a sensitive vibration alarm for use as a simple surveillance system for protecting doors and windows.
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Do-It-Yourself
Mini Candle Light Using Old Mobile Phone Battery According to the three Rs—reuse, reduce and recycle—we must save our planet from e-waste.
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Simple Low-Cost and Versatile Battery Charger Presented here is a versatile circuit to charge batteries ranging from 6V through 48V.
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Do-It-Yourself
How To Make A Business Card Flashlight The aim of this article is to make a business/visiting card useful, something that people really do not want to throw away and use as a piece of advertising.
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Surveillance Camera Using RaspiCam And Android App This project describes how to build a surveillance camera based on Raspberry Pi (Raspi) that records HD video only when something moves in the monitored area.
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Do-It-Yourself
USB Interface Using Python Software This is a simple transistor’s output characteristic curve-tracer program through the interfacing of USB and PIC microcontroller using Python programming language. Output characteristic curve of a transistor is automated using Python software and USB interface.
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| Design
From Lightweight Ceramic Heat-Sinks To Interface Solutions For Heat Dissipation While going through electronics product reviews, you might have come across phrases like.
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Innovation
Clumping All Your Entertainment In A Clumpe “We are all connected to the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain,” said Sir Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest known physicists of our times.
| Test & Measurement
Test Driving Autonomous Vehicles: Smart Becoming Smarter Vehicles, system components and machines are becoming increasingly autonomous and network with each other via wireless technologies.
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eStyle
Do-It-Yourself: How To Upgrade To Windows 10 For Free When Windows 10 was announced, Microsoft was offering a free update for existing PC users, but you could only do that before July 29, 2016.
| IEW 2017 Supplement
.Pre-Show Report .Exhibitors Profiles
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eStyle: First Look
.Smartwatch by ASUS .DIGISOL launches wireless broadband router .Acer launches projector .AOC launches gaming monitors .Wearable air-conditioner from DOEL .Yoga Book by Lenovo .Xiaomi launches power bank .GizMo ByTes
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Cistern Overflow Alert System The system presented here will electronically monitor cistern (tank that holds water to flush the toilet) overflows that can otherwise cause seepage in the flats below in a multi-storied building.
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Do-It-Yourself
81-LED Chaser Light Using CD4017 This is a simple 81-LED chaser light using two CD4017 decade counters.
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Line Frequency Meter Based On Reciprocal Counting Precise measurement of line-signal frequency is very important in many applications, especially in the management of power grid systems.
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Interview
e-Payments: “Blockchain Essentially Creates A Trusted Environment To Operate On Multi-Company Supply Chain Ecosystems” The Internet of Things, cognitive manufacturing and connected systems have one thing in common—all work on data that has been collected. Cognitive tools start to analyse all things that have been brought in. So how does it work? Bruce Anderson, electronics industry global managing director at IBM, speaks with Shanosh Kumar from EFY
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