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Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Fwd: More Oscillators & Timers - Some Of Our Favorite Inspirational Projects


 
 

A NUTS & VOLTS DESIGNER'S GUIDE TO RELIABLE OSCILLATORS AND TIMERS - PART 3
Crystals That Make The World Go 'Round

 

Strike a crystal goblet with a spoon, and you immediately have both the attention of your guests and the sympathetic resonance of other goblets on your sumptuous holiday table. What is happening here? Well, you have created a crystal oscillator that generates acoustic waves in the air.

 
 

HAPPY 4th OF JULY To All Of Our Advertisers, Readers, and Friends

Below is a small collection of some of our favorite inspirational projects from past issues. They are fairly involved and display an attention to detail that makes them worthy of a close look. Enjoy!

H-2-OPUS

Water Music, Lights, And Microcontrollers

 

What kind of home project has 82 legs, horns, and will never have all of the "bugs" worked out of it? The answer is "H-2-Opus," a BASIC Stamp driven musical water fountain.

COMPUTER CONTROLLED AIR/STEAM ENGINE

 

Build an "external combustion engine," then add a computer control system to maximize efficiency and performance. Best of all — it's cheap and green!

 
 

STEAMPUNK PLANETARIUM CLOCK

 

This unique timekeeper will have you seeing stars ... even the same skies the Spanish missionaries observed back in the 1600s!

BUILD A CUSTOM WEATHER GAUGE

 

A complete stand-alone platform for displaying real time data from the Internet from your mantel or bookshelf.

 
 

HOW I BUILT A FUNKY STEAMPUNK DISPLAY

 

Using 1" high seven-segment electromechanical displays (EMDs) in an ambitious project that features five 1941 vintage rotary phone step-by-step (SXS) switches.

BUILD THE 3D LED MATRIX CUBE

 

This article shows you how to build a really cool 3D cube with a 4 x 4 x 4 monochromatic LED matrix which has a total of 64 LEDs. A complete kit is available. (See link below)

Build Something Today!

 

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