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JANUARY 2007
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ON THE COVER ...
34
Build a Ring Flash for
Macro Photography
Page 46
PROJECTS and
FEATURES
34 CONTROL YOUR WORLD
Part 4: Build a gaming exercise
bicycle.
By Michael Simpson
COLUMNS DEPARTMENTS
40 CHARGE ALL BATTERY
CHARGER SWITCHER
Keep all your batteries charged
and ready for action.
08 TECHKNOWLEDGEY 2006
Events, advances, and news
from the electronics world.
06 READER FEEDBACK
12 STAMP APPLICATIONS
Ready ... Set ... Code!
28 NEW PRODUCTS
By Kenton Chun
46 BUILD A RING FLASH FOR
MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY
Get the smallest of details in your
photos with this “flashy“ device.
18 Q&A
Bypass caps demystified, “B”
battery eliminator, power supply
ripple meter, plus more.
32 SHOWCASE
33 NEWSBYTES
By Fernando Garcia
72 NEAR SPACE
BalloonSats, PongSats, and
the Idaho Cluster Bomb.
67 ELECTRO-NET
54 GETTING STARTED WITH
PICAXE MICROCONTROLLERS
Part 1: Are you new to the world
of programmable microcontrollers
and looking for an inexpensive
place to start?
80 THE DESIGN CYCLE
Core Networking Development:
Zigbee.
98 CLASSIFIEDS
100 NV BOOKSTORE
87 PERSONAL ROBOTICS
Motor Test Lab — Part 1.
102 TECH FORUM
By Ron Hackett
94 GETTING STARTED WITH PICs
PIC12F675 Replaces the 555 Timer.
60 INTERFACING STANDARDS:
RS-232
There are various common
interfaces available and choosing
the best one is not always trivial.
105 ADVERTISERS INDEX
By Gerard Fonte
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