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Electronics For You
January 2016 Issue
Vol. 48 No. 1
Tech Focus
High-Flying Solutions To Connect The World
Lightning-speed connectivity is something many of us take for granted, as also the ability to connect anywhere, anytime using our mobile networks.
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Healthcare
Why E-Waste Cannot Be Taken Lightly
Electronic waste (e-waste) or waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is a term used to cover all electrical or electronic equipment and their parts that have been discarded by their users as waste without the intent of re-use.
| Sensors
How Electronic Nose Is Better Than Ours
An electronic nose, or e-nose, is a device that identifies specific components of an odour and analyses its chemical makeup to identify it. It is engineered to mimic the mammalian olfactory system but is better in some respects.
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Manufacturing
Wearable Devices: Essential Inputs for Design Engineers
With the increase in usage of smartphones, opportunities for applications using mobile phones have also increased. This coupled with connectivity options such as Bluetooth and Near Field Communication and add-on devices to the phones have become very popular as these offer unique solutions.
| Do-It-Yourself
Earthquake Indicator Using Arduino
An earthquake is an unavoidable and unpredictable natural phenomenon that often causes damage to lives and property. We cannot fight it but we can stay alert and aware using technology that can protect us and the industry.
Download source code
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Do-It-Yourself
Device for Charging Three 12V Batteries
12V rechargeable batteries are used in cars, electronics projects, systems with emergency lights, electronic toys and so on. These batteries need to be kept charged to avoid damage due to self-discharge.
| Do-It-Yourself
Low-Cost LPG Leakage Detector
The circuit for an LPG leakage detector is readily available in the market, but it is extremely expensive and usually based on a microcontroller (MCU).
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Test & Measurement
What Drives Spectrum Analysers
While incremental specification enhancements are taken as a given in any field driven by technology, the past year has seen some interesting advances on the side of improving test and measurement (T&M) productivity.
| Internet Of Things
Is the Connected World A Bane or A Boon?
Intelligent devices and their evergrowing networks encompassing our daily lives have emerged as the utopian idea for our tech-savvy generation. As predicted by research firm IDC, by 2020 there will be more than 28 billion objects with data-exchange capabilities.
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Do-It-Yourself
Digital IC Tester With Embedded Truth Table
Different ICs come with different specifications. Thus, it becomes imperative to
apply different hardware configurations and feed all possible inputs for checking different ICs. We need some easy and useful techniques to check the functionality of different kinds of ICs.
Download source code
| Do-It-Yourself
Low-Cost Dusk-Dawn controller
Solar streetlights can be easily integrated with a dusk-dawn controller by simply employing
a pnp transistor and a few resistors where the solar panel itself works as the sensor.
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Interview
My Vision Is To Position Andhra Pradesh On The World Map For Electronics Manufacturing
Andhra Pradesh aims to attract investments to the tune of US$ 5 billion in the ESDM sector and create employment for 400,000 people by 2020. N. Chandrababu Naidu, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, shared his vision to develop the electronics industry into an important growth engine for the entire state, in a conversation with Sudeshna Das, senior executive editor, Electronics Bazaar. He aims to do this through effective use of the state’s talent pool, continuous skills enhancement, by promoting innovation and future technologies, as well as by creation of excellent infrastructure
| Renewables
Modernise Your Living With Solar
Today, lifestyle is changing at a very fast pace, while accepting ways to save energy. However, using grid electricity is not the solution as it is too costly.
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Innovation
Touche: An Affordable Life-Changer For The Visually-Challenged
The world is becoming digital. We wake up every morning on seeing the time on our clock/watch. We turn on the television or e-readers and catch up on news. We leave for work, go to the station and the display tells us how long before the train arrives. At office, we spend most of the day working on our laptop.
| Do-It-Yourself
Fingerprint Door Unlock System Using Arduino
This simple fingerprint sensor project using Arduino can be very useful for door security,
forensics, crime investigation, personal identification, attendance system and much more.
Download source code
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Do-It-Yourself
JavaScript Canvas Based Painting Interface
JavaScript is a versatile language for programming the Web’s back-end. It powers HTML
elements’ behaviour based on the functions that are defined in the program.
Download source code
| Buyers’ Guide
Choosing The Right Embedded Development Board
Development and prototype boards are computer boards that are used to develop or test electronic modules. These are used to evaluate programs for embedded devices such as controllers, point-of-sale (PoS) terminals, kiosks and information appliances.
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Embedded
What’s New In The Latest Microcontrollers
Targeting the simple application tier, microcontroller (MCU) vendors continue to drive their products to break new limits of cost, current drain and size, while adding features to ease development, hoping to entice embedded system developers. What do the latest MCUs offer this year? Let us take a look.
| Defence
American Ca rrier Strike Groups: An Electronic Perspective
In the last four parts of this article we covered air defence warfare, electronic warfare (EW), under-sea warfare, strike warfare and air operations. In this concluding part, let us take a look at command and control (C2) operations as well as cruise control operations.
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Information Technology
Role of IT in Weather Forecasting
The weather has a profound impact on a person’s mood. Research shows that higher temperatures raise a person’s mood, while weather encompassing wind or little sun tends to make a person feel depressed.
| Do-It-Yourself
Solar Light For A Portable Toilet
Despite being more expensive than standard permanent outdoor toilets, portable toilets (Fig. 1) have several significant benefits as these are self-contained and can be placed almost anywhere.
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Interview
After 10nm, The Industry Could Move Away From Silicon
Design tool vendors often get to play with technology nodes long before the rest of the world even know these exist. In this interview, we sit down with a thought leader in the electronics design automation industry to get a glimpse of what is coming up. Walden C. Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics, speaks with Dilin Anand of EFY
| Interview
Maintenance And Servicing Are Two Important Elements Currently Driving The IoT In India
The Internet of Things (IoT) is something you see in every sector now. What is driving IoT sales? This interview gets you the answer
through a discussion with two leaders from Arrow, a Fortune 500 company that is one of the biggest distributors in the world, thus putting them in the best position to answer this question. Sanjeev Keskar, managing director for Arrow India, and Natarajan M.M.,
vice president for South Asia for Arrow, speak with Dilin Anand from EFY
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Interview
Priority Is To Change Consumer Behaviour Towards Buying Energy-Efficient LED Lighting Products
A vision that both the Indian government and the industry share is to promote the use of LED bulbs. Success can be achieved by implementing the Shared Energy Savings and Guaranteed Energy Savings models designed by Energy Efficiency Service Ltd (EESL), a government-run energy services company (ESCO). Saurabh Kumar, managing director, EESL, shares his views about this model and the role of EESL in a conversation with Sudeshna Das, senior executive editor, Electronics Bazaar
| Interview
thinnovation Is The design challenge In Mobile
We have always talked about how process nodes and newer semiconductors are helping with miniaturisation, but that is not the full story. This interview takes a look at the other side of miniaturisation, of the materials that allow you to build such small-scale objects in the first place. Sridhar N.B., director, sales and marketing (industrial), DSM India Pvt Ltd, speaks with Dilin Anand of EFY
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Interview
It Is Good To Separate Fast-And slowmoving
technologies
A vast expanse of applications is driving innovation in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), feels Uday Prabhu, general manager, electronics product engineering and product management, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Pvt Ltd. Let us find out how as he talks to Dilin Anand and Priya Ravindran of EFY about the growth and scope of MEMS technology
| Interview
Arriving At A Specification Document... Is The Biggest Challenge
Going with the norm treads a relatively easy path, whereas going against the flow brings its own set of challenges. If all that you do is try to disrupt what exists, the complications are that much more. Babu K.C., general manager and head, hardware practice, and Divya Sasidharan, engineering manager, both from Happiest Minds, talk to Dilin Anand and Priya Ravindran of EFY about dealing with disruptive technologies and the challenges that crop up along the way
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Interview
TOTAL GRAPHICS POWER... Is The Most Significa nt Element When Designing A PCB
Computers are taken so much for granted that even engineers occasionally fail to appreciate the factors that affect their product design. This interview should give you some insight into how motherboards and graphics cards are designed. Jackson Hsu, product management director, GIGABYTE Technology Co. Ltd speaks with Dilin Anand of EFY
| EFY Plus DVD
Digital Logic Design
This is a software tool for designing and simulating digital circuits. It provides digital parts ranging from simple gates to arithmetic logic units and state machines.
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EFY Plus DVD
DipTrace For Your Schematic and PCB Design
The electronics industry is expanding like never before. But every application is dependent on that tiny block called printed circuit board (PCB), which is totally hidden by wires and connected devices.
| EFY Plus DVD
The Sage Who Made Scientific Computing Transparent And Affordable
Do you remember Julia, a dynamic programming language for technical computing that we had come across in an earlier issue of EFY?
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EFY Plus DVD
Signal Processing in C++ Using Aquila 3.0
When it comes to modern information engineering, communication and signal processing are birds of a feather.
| Make In India
3Cs Drive Connector Growth
Rapid technological development
has increased the demand for compact and reliable electronic devices.
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Interview
Even If You Have A Good Machine And Bad Support, It Is Still A Bad Machine
This interview shares some tips for managers and future business leaders, where we brief over acquisitions, team management and development. Mark Norris, general manager - SE Asia and Korea, Nordson Advanced Technologies Electronic Systems speaks with Dilin Anand of EFY
| eStyle Buyers’ Guide
Friendly Microwaves
Microwaves have always established a special place in every kitchen. You cannot ignore the importance of a microwave.
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First Look
. LG launches portable speakers
. Selfie stick by Portronics
. Air purifiers from Moonbow
. Windows 10 phone from Microsoft
. Selfie stick by Portronics
. LG launches portable speakers
. Air purifiers from Moonbow
. Windows 10 phone from Microsoft
. ASUS launches gaming laptop
. Lenovo announces Ideacentre Stick 300
. DSLR by Nikon
| Useful Webiste
This month we have a few websites that introduce you to electronic projects based on different microcontrollers (MCUs)
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