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The new Digikey catalog is here!

2011 Digikey's new catalog

Today I got the new Digikey catalog delivered at the university. It must be the season, during recent weeks also Elfa (you remember: the company which delivers cable by the metre…) and RS-Components have mailed their new paper catalogs.

I still prefer paper catalogs in spite of their environmental impact, because there is simply […]

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Troubleshooting against all odds II

semi-conducting wire

The hot wire mystery

I like to build my prototype electronic circuits on perf- or stripboard after having tested it on a breadboard. Actually I would have loved to have breadboards around when I started with electronics some 25 years ago, but it was not before the late 1990s that I got familiar with […]

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Troubleshooting against all odds I

Sub-D 25 female connector

The parallel port mystery

Sub-D 25 female connector

Have you ever used or considered using the parallel port of your computer to control your own electronics project?

Well, I have, and this was not my first project. But this time I ran into trouble…

With modern versions of Windows it is not […]

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Electric heating in the 21st century?

Elektroheizungen im 21. Jahrhundert? Zumindest wenn man einer Firma Glauben schenkt… […]

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