Don  Lancaster's Guru's Lair Electrical Engineering Resource  Library
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There are a number of outstanding Electrical Engineering
websites out there, and I have no intention to attempt to
try and directly compete with them.

Instead, listed here are many of the Electrical Engineering related
resources that I personally need and use the most. Along with
an extensive directory of my own articles and tutorials.

Some library files require an Adobe Acrobat  plug in for online
viewing.  Offline, these may be accessed by an Acrobat Reader or
an eBook Reader or any other .PDF accepting program.

Many universities are now offering electrical engineering and other
courses online and free. The giant gorilla here, of course, is MIT.
And there is now an OCW Consortium.

But here are a few others...

Arizona State University College of Eastern Utah Johns Hopkins Kaplan University Michigan State MIT New Jersey Tech Institute Notre Dame Tufts UC Berkeley University of California Irvine University of Mass Boston University of Utah University of Wisconsin Utah Valley University Weber State University Western Governers University- Wheelock College

Another linked courseware list can be found here.

Here is an excellent resource to find out which part numbers are real,
how much they cost, who makes them, and where to get them...

Instant Chip Prices & Availability from OEM's Trade      A great source to determine which chips (and other electronic parts )      are available from who for how much.

Click here for our Consulting services.

And here are some of my favorite or preferred sources of supply...

Arrow Avenet Circuit Specialists Digi Key Future Electronics Galco Jameco Marlin P. Jones Mouser Newark

  Another linked supplier list can be found here.

Along with these "surplus bargain" sources...

Apache Reclamanation American Science & Surplus Antique Electronic Supply Black Hole C & H Sales Electronic Goldmine Fair Radio Sales Government Liquidation Herbach & Rademan Public Surplus Surplus Traders Weird Stuff

You can c lick here for surplus auction info.

And these sites useful for prototyping bits and pieces..

Access Woodworking Advanced Screen Print AIN Plastics Bead Electronics Constantine Wood Delvies Edmund Scientific Evergreen Models Hearne Hardwoods Hygenic Iasco-Tesco ISG Imaging K&S Engineering McMaster Carr Midwest Products MSC Direct Northeastern Scale Models Player Piano Company Professional Plastics Robert A. Main Small Parts ( Now Amazon ) Thomas Registry United States Plastics Value Plastics West Systems Epoxy W.W. Grainger

Additional prototyping info can be found here

And these obsolute and outdated semiconductor sources...

4 Star Electronics Abeja Advanced Semiconductor Bates Components Electronic Parts Dists Lansdale Now Components OEMs Trade Obsolete Semiconductors Rochester Electronics Smith Semiconductor Stock Point U.S. Bid

Obsolete search services can be found here.

Here's a few of the major chip and semiconductor houses...

AMD Altera Analog Devices Atmel Cherry Cirrus Cypress Dallas Maxim Exar Fairchild Fujitsu GEC Plessey Hitachi Holtek IDT International Rectifier Intersil Linear Technology LSI LSI/CSI Maxim Micrel ( Now Microchip ) Microchip Technology Mini Circuits Mitel Motorola National ( now TI ) NXP NEC OKI Semiconductor ON Semiconductor Panasonic Samsung Sanyo ST Sharp Sierra Siliconix Vishay Sony Supertex TDK Teccor Littlefuse Texas Instruments Toshiba Tri Quint Unitrode TI VLSI NXP Western Design Center Western Digital Xicor Intersil Xylinx Yamaha

An extensive linked directory can be found here.
Magic Sinewave ICs can be found here
Device location services can be found here

Outdated repair manuals have gotten a lot cheaper and a lot easier
to find these days. The two biggies are Tektronix who have released
all their earlier manuals to the public domain and are typically readily
available on the web. Plus Hewlett Packard, most of whose legacy
manuals are now provided online by Agilent.

A leading web manual source appears to be Artech Media.

Here are some more web based manual resources..

AA4DF. Agilent Antique Radio Archive Arteki Media Bama. Boat Anchor Web Ring Data Manuals Ebaman eBay Heathkit ICOM IET Labs (GenRad) KB2LJJ Tektronix Tube Radio

Reprints of my early stories can be found here
Manual finding services can be found here

Free print trade journals used to be the mainstay of electronic
resources. They clearly have gotten a tad lean lately. They
are likely to shortly vanish entirely.

Here's a short list. And a few I recommend that might still be
publishing ...

Appliance Design Battery Power Design News EDN E.E Times Electronic Design Electronic Products GPS World High Frequency LED Journal LEDs Magazine Machine Design Microwave Journal Photonics Spectra Power Electronics Solar Industry Oxbridge Mediafinder Ulrich's Web

Additional trade journals can be found here

More scholarly ( and usually outrageously overpriced ) technical  
journals are often offered by IEEE, Inspec IET, Elsevier, NTIS,
or Dialog. The two leading scientific journals in the world today,
of course, are Science and Nature. While Citizen Scientist seems
to be the best amateur science publication.

Hobbiest and experimenter magazines have long ago gone belly
With the few remaining becoming an endangered species. Here's
today's short list...

Steve Ciarcia' Circuit Cellar      Very much hands on mix of construction projects and useful      electronic theory. Both print and online editions.

Click here for my own Circuit Cellar reprints .

O'Reilleys Make Magazine      Do-it yourself projects involving computers, electronics, robotics,      metalworking, woodworking, and such.

Click here for my own Classic Reprints.

Hands-on Nuts & Volts Magazine      Monthly combined shopper and tech magazine for the hobbiest,      design engineer, technician, and experimenter.

Click here for my own Nuts & Volts reprints .

    Here's a sampler of a few of our "more important" papers that
    are electrical engineering related..

Tech Innovation Secrets TECHINOV.PDF #68      A major tutorial on the Fundamental Factors driving recent technical      innovation. Decoupling. Accurate replication. Elimination of the      gatekeepers. Computing power beyond awesome. More...             08/08

Click here for the Blatant Opportunist library.
Click here for the Tech Musings library.

Click here for the GuruGram 68 source code.
Click here to Contact the Author directly.

Energy Intro & Summary NRGLECT2.PDF #100      Nearly everything you" know" about energy and alternate energy is      "not even wrong". Slide show type tutorial gets the facts straight for      you.. Focuses on the importance of exergy and net energy.          11/08

Click here for an Energy Fundamentals I tutorial..
Click here for an Energy Fundamentals II tutorial..

Click here for the GuruGram 100 source code.
Click here to Contact the Author directly.

PV Panel Intro & Summary PVLECT2.PDF #100      Not one net watthour of pv energy has ever been generated! Here are      the facts on why pv solar electricity today is neither renewable nor      sustainable, Emphasis is on fundamental physics and CIGS.       11/08

Click here for an Energy Fundamentals I tutorial..
Click here for an Energy Fundamentals II tutorial..

Click here for the GuruGram 101 source code.
Click here to Contact the Author directly

Blatant Opportunist #71 ENERGFUN.PDF      Some energy fundamentals.. Work, power, & energy. Sources,      carriers, sinks. Energy density. Thermodynamics. Efficiency. Exergy.      Hydrogen realities. Electrolysis fantasies, Photovoltaics, more.

Click here for the It's a Gas hydrogen resources.
Click here for ENERGFUN.PSL sourcecode.

More Energy Fundamentals MORENRGF.PDF #86      An update and expansion of our classic Energy Fundamentals tutorial.      Dimes versus kilowatt hours. Exergy. Net Energy. Amortization. pv      CIGS and new developments. Economy of scale. Grid storage.   02/08

Click for the original Energy Fundamentals paper.
Click here for the GuruGram 86 source code.
Click here to Contact the Author directly.

Magic Sinewave Summary MSINEXEC.PDF #65      An "executive summary" on magic sinewaves that gathers together      the key features and development history from several earlier files      Magic sinewaves offer efficiency and quality advantages.         06/08

Click here for the Magic Sinewave library.
Click here for a Magic Sineave intro tutorial.

Click here for the GuruGram 65 source code.
Click here to Contact the Author directly.

Ultra Fast MagSine Calculator FASTMSSOL.PDF #73      The very first in a new series of ultra fast and nearly deterministic      Magic sinewave calculators. These are hundreds to thousands of      times faster and more convenient than before. Tutorial review     . 05/07

Click here for the Ultra Fast MS Calculator.
Click here for the Angle Position Plots.

Click here for the Magic Sinewave library.
Click here for a Magic Sinewave tutorial.
Click here for a Magic Sinewave slide show.
Click here for a Magic Sinewave proposal.

Click here for the GuruGram 73 source code.
Click here to Contact the Author directly.

Improved Magic Sinewave Chip NUMSCHIP.PDF #38      Combined data sheet and application note for a second and improved      Magic Sinewave demo/evaluation chip. This MSD28D-05X combines      3-phase zeroing of harmonics 2-22 with improved inputs.    05/04

Click here for the Magic Sinewave library.
Click here for a Magic Sinewave intro.
Click for a 3-phase Magic Sinewave tutorial.
Click for a Magic Sinewave development proposal.

Click here to Order MSD28-05X chips & source code.
Click here for the NUMSCHIP.PSL source code.
Click here for additional Consulting services.
Click here to Contact the Author directly.

Fun With Fields FUNFIELD.PDF #39      Using PostScript to quickly solve advanced field problems with some      astonishingly simple math. Gradients, Equipotentials, Laplacians.  12/04

Click here for the FIELDS01.PDF field generator.
Click here for the FIELDS01.PDF field from.

Click here to reach the Math Stuff library.
Click here to reach the PostScript library.
Click here for additional Consulting services

Click here for the FUNFIELD.PSL source code.
Click here to Contact the Author directly.

Simple new EM field solutions REBOUND1.PDF #43      Total Heresy new "Rebounding" method of solving electromagnetic      fields that requires NO fancy math! Zero Laplacian solution tutorial      includes printed circuit, busbar, and 3-phase conduit examples.  05/05

Click here for the PostScript library.
Click for the PS Rebounding utility.

Click here for the REBOUND1.PSL source code.
Click here to Contact the Author directly.

The Saga of the Dripping Stalactites STALAC.PDF #35      Celebrating the beauty of applied mathematics, first through a catalog      of our more obscure "fun with long strings of numbers" topics and      then by way of the Magic Sinewave timeline history.    03/04

Click here to reach the Math Stuff library.
Click here for the Magic Sinewave library.
Click here for a Magic Sinewave intro.
Click for a Magic Sinewave development proposal.

Click here to Order MSD-28X chips & source code.
Click here for the SIGVIEW.PSLs source code.
Click here to Contact the Author directly.

Blatant Opportunist #49  BASHPSEU.PDF      How to Bash Pseudoscience. Meta studies. Looks like a duck. Binary      consequence tree. Ockham's razor. Follow the Cash . Avoid negatives.      Roswell. Dowsing. Brown's Gas. Homopolar gens. Magic lamps.

Click here for bizarre pseudoscience website access.
Click here for Nokoli Tesla book info.

Blatant Opportunist #32 RATHOLES.PDF       Avoiding Engineering Ratholes. Charging madness. U-turn insanity      Thermoelectric coolers. Sterling engines. Subsurface radars. High      power piezo. Anti-Qwerty. How to avoid bad engineering.

     Click here for more ISMM tutorials.

Blatant Opportunist #25  ELESIMP.PDF      The quest for elegant simplicity. Doing more with less.      The P-38 can opener. Schmidt oscillator. Vortex cooler.      H-P audio oscillator. Duracell tester. NE-2 neon lamp.

Click here for our auction bargains.

Blatant Opportunist #24  RISKDOWN.PDF      The "real" way to "invent" something is to become a purveyor      of risk reduction instead. Using and understanding the idea      mortality curve. Getting paid. Mining fallout. Two examples.

Click here for test equipment bargains.

Blatant Opportunist #6  CASAGPAT.PDF      For most individuals and small scale startups, any involvement with      the patent system is guaranteed to cause you a net loss of time,      money, and sanity. Here's why in Don's The Case Against Patents

Click here for more patent avoidance info.
Click here to place a Case Against Patents order.

Blatant Opportunist #29  WHEN2PAT.PDF      Guidelines for when to patent. Do not even think about      patents and patenting unless you can honestly give yourself      positive answers to all of these key questions.

Click here for additional patent avoidance info.

Blatant Opportunist #45  BUSTPAT.PDF       Essential Tools to Bust a $650 Patent. Showing prior art. Showing       failure to disclose. Obviousness to a practitioner. Technical errors.       Procedural errors. Lack of due diligence. The paper blizzard.

Click here for additional patent avoidance info

  Almost all of your Guru's Lair ends up involved with electrical
  engineering in one way or another. Here's a summary of a few
  of our major reprint areas...

The GuruGram Library

Much of our current work centers on our GuruGram      Library.  These are typically single topic papers and      tutorials in a web-attractive format and covering a      wide variety of subjects. Most are fairly technical.

GuruGram #104 -- uv lamp ballast debugging   GuruGram #103 -- Book Scanning "Gutter Math"   GuruGram #102 -- PS Web validation utilities   GuruGram #101 -- PV panel intro & summary    GuruGram #100 -- Energy intro & summary   GuruGram #99 -- Filterless magic sinewaves?   GuruGram #98 -- Mt. Graham aerial tramway   GuruGram #97 -- GGMS magic sinewaves   GuruGram #96 -- Enhancine eBay skills VII   GuruGram #95 -- Spread Spectrum Magsines?   GuruGram #94 -- New Magic Sinewave calculator   GuruGram #93 -- Trashing Auto Electrolysizers   GuruGram #92 -- Bitmap circular lettering   GuruGram #91 -- Bitmap perspective lettering   GuruGram #90 -- Architect's perspective utilities   GuruGram #89 -- Mt. Grahm lumber tram history   GuruGram #88 -- Image post processing tools   GuruGram #87 -- A digital airbrushing algorithm   GuruGram #86 -- More energy fundamentals   GuruGram #85 -- Inverse Graphics Transforms   GuruGram #84 -- Bitmap to PS array conversions   GuruGram #83 -- Pixel interpolation algorithms   GuruGram #82 -- False color & rainbow mods   GuruGram #81 -- 2-way HTML & PDF linking   GuruGram #80 -- Cubic spline min point distance   GuruGram #79 -- Gonzo PostScript utilities guide   GuruGram #78 -- Enhancine eBay skills VI   GuruGram #77 -- Gauss Jordan equation solver   GuruGram #76 -- PostScript numeric reporter   GuruGram #75 -- Acrobat PDF post doc editing   GuruGram #74 -- What is the best eBay price?   GuruGram #73 -- Ultra fast magsine calculator   GuruGram #72 -- Deterministic Magsine solutions   GuruGram #71 -- Enhancing your eBay skills V   GuruGram #70 -- Enhancing your eBay skills IV   GuruGram #69 -- Cubic spline catenary approximation   GuruGram #68 -- Tech innovation secrets   GuruGram #67 -- Solving puzzles with PostScript   GuruGram #66 -- A newbies intro to the web   GuruGram #65 -- Magic Sinewave summary   GuruGram #64 -- Gonzo utility log plots   GuruGram #63 -- Two phase magic sinewaves   GuruGram #62 -- Enhancing your eBay skills III   GuruGram #61 -- Book Cover Layout Utilities   GuruGram #60 -- Cubic spline length & subdivision   GuruGram #59 -- Cubic Spline through 4 points   GuruGram #58 -- The Math behind cubic splines   GuruGram #57 -- Cubic Spline Circles & Ellipses   GuruGram #56 -- Universal bitmap manipulator   GuruGram #55 -- Improved keystone corrector   GuruGram #54 -- Perspective lettering utilities   GuruGram #53 -- Revised bitmap typewriter   GuruGram #52 -- Raw PostScript full transparency!   GuruGram #51 -- Ongoing Refurb Log   GuruGram #50 -- Extreme display legitibility secrets   GuruGram #49 -- Enhancing your eBay skills II   GuruGram #48 -- Flashing Text in Acrobat   GuruGram #47 -- Real time Acrobat Animation   GuruGram #46 -- Acrobat PDF Content Extraction   GuruGram #45 -- Word Frequency Analysis Tools   GuruGram #44 -- Arizona Auction Resource Guide   GuruGram #43 -- Simple new EM field solutions   GuruGram #42 -- PS Array-to-Image Conversion   GuruGram #41 -- Enhancing your eBay skills I   GuruGram #40 -- MagSin PIC Prgming Sourcecode   GuruGram #39 -- Fun with fields   GuruGram #38 -- New Magic Sinewave Eval Chips   GuruGram #37 -- High legibility fonts tutorial   GuruGram #36 -- Logfile Reporter History Addon   GuruGram #35 -- Saga of the dripping stalactites   GuruGram #34 -- SigViewing of Magic Sinewaves   GuruGram #33 -- Magic Sinewave demo hardware   GuruGram #32 -- A Heap Sort for PostScript   GuruGram #31 -- Fast & Efficient PostScript Sorts   GuruGram #30 -- PostScript String & Array Hacks   GuruGram #29 -- Using Distiller to run PostScript   GuruGram #28 -- Logfile reader & eBay analyzer   GuruGram #27 -- Magic Sinewave Quantizations   GuruGram #26 -- Successful eBay buyer strategies   GuruGram #25 -- Successful eBay seller strategies   GuruGram #24 -- Magic Sinewave Visualizations   GuruGram #23 -- Fancy .JPG to .PDF Conversions   GuruGram #22 -- My eBay photo secrets   GuruGram #21 -- Website video fades & wipes   GuruGram #20 -- Gonzo PS PowerPoint Emulator!   GuruGram #19 -- Reducing 8-bit Magsin Distortion   GuruGram #18 -- Fitting power curve data points   GuruGram #17 -- Dodge & Burn tutorial & utility   GuruGram #16 -- PS Runtime Speedup Secrets   GuruGram #15 -- Digital camera swings & tilts   GuruGram #14 -- Exploring the .BMP data format   GuruGram #13 -- PS Disk Access Tutorial   GuruGram #12 -- PS Search & Replace Utility   GuruGram #11 -- Exploring the Acrobat 5 SDK   GuruGram #10 -- Internaldict & pdfmark Cmnds   GuruGram #9 -- PostScript Transparency !!!   GuruGram #8 -- Flate Compression Viewer   GuruGram #7 -- Overunity Batteries   GuruGram #6 -- Acrobat "Galley Slave" layouts   GuruGram #5 -- Auto-tracking PDF web links   GuruGram #4 -- Cubic spline image interpolation   GuruGram #3 -- Magic Sinewave Fourier checkplot   GuruGram #2 -- Magic Sinewave harmonic spectra   GuruGram #1 -- Intro to steplocked magic sinewaves

Click here for my Early Classics reprints .

The Resource Bin Library

These are reprints from our older Resource Bin      Library that originally appeared as print articles      in Nuts & Volts magazine. The primary focus was      on "where to go to get stuff".

ResBin #92 -- Some PostScript Possibilities   ResBin #91 -- Exploring Antenna Resources   ResBin #90 -- GPS and Navigation   ResBin #89 -- Boat Anchors   ResBin #88 -- Hydrogen Resources   ResBin #87 -- Used Test Equipment   ResBin #86 -- Dowsing for Brown's Gas in Roswell   ResBin #85 -- Some favorite web sites   ResBin #84 -- Exploring Medical Electronics   ResBin #83 -- Fun with neat stuff   ResBin #82 -- Secrets of military surplus II   ResBin #81 -- Secrets of military surplus I   ResBin #80 -- Test Equipment manuals   ResBin #79 -- Finding semiconductor & IC data   ResBin #78 -- Starting your own web page   ResBin #77 -- Accessing offshore electronics   ResBin #76 -- Opportunities in home automation ( ask )   ResBin #75 -- Virtual reality illusions   ResBin #74 -- Seismic & earthquake resources   ResBin #73 -- Electronic surplus & auctions   ResBin #72 -- Some wireless resources   ResBin #71 -- Secrets of web based research   ResBin #70 -- PostScript PIC flutterwumpers   ResBin #69 -- Robotic resources update   ResBin #68 -- Terrific toner techniques   ResBin #67 -- Getting started in amateur astronomy   ResBin #66 -- Book-on-demand publishing   ResBin #65 -- Video game tools & techniques   ResBin #64 -- The human side of the web   ResBin #63 -- Painlessly scamming a student paper   ResBin #62 -- Exploring trade journals   ResBin #61 -- Some favorite web sites   ResBin #60 -- Finding answers on the web   ResBin #59 -- Starting your own tech venture   ResBin #58 -- Getting a charge out of batteries   ResBin #57 -- Resources for electronic servicing   ResBin #56 -- How to start your own web page   ResBin #55 -- Exploring the web for the first time   ResBin #54 -- Pick a peck of PIC's   ResBin #53 -- PDF and other info distribution tools   ResBin #52 -- Choosing a personal computer   ResBin #51 -- Son of alternate energy 13th, part 6   ResBin #50 -- Injection molding & plastic prototyping   ResBin #49 -- Fundamentals of nutting and volting   ResBin #48 -- Solar and alternate energy resources   ResBin #47 -- Another look at telecomm   ResBin #46 -- New opportunities in poer electronics   ResBin #45 -- Manic multimedia media magazines   ResBin #44 -- Disability and handicapped resources   ResBin #43 -- Electronic music then and now   ResBin #42 -- Alternate desktop publishing options   ResBin #41 -- Security & alarm resources   ResBin #40 -- New opportunities in home automation   ResBin #39 -- Getting started in auto electronics   ResBin #38 -- Exploring high frequency resources   ResBin #37 -- A look at sensors & sensing   ResBin #36 -- Book-on-demand publishing update   ResBin #35 -- The best hardware parts of all time   ResBin #34 -- New developments in remote controls   ResBin #33 -- Optoelectronics and fiber optics   ResBin #32 -- Direct toner homebrew printed circuits   ResBin #31 -- A "magic machine" for desktop pub   ResBin #30 -- Conducting your own personal research   ResBin #29 -- Cable & video insider sources   ResBin #28 -- Secrets of electronic breadboarding   ResBin #27 -- Electronic servicing opportunities   ResBin #26 -- Pseudoscience scams & ripoffs   ResBin #25 -- Essential homebrew test equipment   ResBin #24 -- A look at electronic collectibles   ResBin #23 -- Tools for electronic prototyping   ResBin #22 -- Online resources & opportunities   ResBin #21 -- Book-on-demand publishing   ResBin #20 -- Starting an IC data book collection   ResBin #19 -- Royalty free real PostScript   ResBin #18 -- The furry with the syringe on top   ResBin #17 -- Exploring ham radio publications   ResBin #16 -- Opportunities in hacker robotics   ResBin #15 -- Secrets of professional prototypes   ResBin #14 -- Starting up your own technical venture   ResBin #13 -- Perils of patents and patenting   ResBin #12 -- Secret desktop publishing sources   ResBin #11 -- Technical books that made a difference   ResBin #10 -- Oddball sources for just plain stuff   ResBin #09 -- Exploring PostScript for fun & profit   ResBin #08 -- Looking into electronic trade journals   ResBin #07 -- Unique opportunities in auto electronics   ResBin #06 -- Wondrous world of electronic surplus   ResBin #05 -- Labor-of-love technical newsletters   ResBin #04 -- Semiconductor & IC sources   ResBin #03 -- Hacker friendly printed circuits   ResBin #02 -- Finding obsolete integrated circuits   ResBin #01 -- Starting your resource quest

Click here for my Circuit Cellar reprints .

The Blatant Opportunist Library

These are reprints from our older Blatant Opportunist      Library that originally appeared as my print articles      in Midnight Engineering magazine. These were mostly      topics of interest to individual entrupreneurs and other      small scale technical startups.

Blat #73 -- Son of eBay Secrets   Blat #72 -- Fun with stuff   Blat #71 -- Some energy fundamentals   Blat #70 -- How to become a crooked auctioneer   Blat #69 -- The worst of Marcia Swampfelder   Blat #68 -- Emerging technical opportunities VII   Blat #67 -- Step by step image prep   Blat #66 -- Thoughts on refurb   Blat #65 -- My eBay secrets   Blat #64 -- Debugging insider info   Blat #63 -- Don's unauthorized autobiography   Blat #62 -- Bouncy bricks and other web tricks   Blat #61 -- Steplocked magic sinewaves   Blat #60 -- The eBay phenomen   Blat #59 -- Web imaging secrets   Blat #58 -- Some thoughts on ezines   Blat #57 -- Imaginative imaging   Blat #56 -- Funding your personal web site   Blat #55 -- Eminently effective email etiquette   Blat #54 -- The surplus and auction scene   Blat #53 -- Emerging technical opportunities VI   Blat #52 -- PDF & PDF link checking   Blat #51 -- Adding website bells & whistles   Blat #50 -- Secrets of 24/7 publishing   Blat #49 -- How to bash pseudoscience   Blat #48 -- Cash & Carry consulting   Blat #47 -- Guidelines for tri-mode publishing   Blat #46 -- Insider banner advertising secrets   Blat #45 -- Essential tools to bust a $650 patent   Blat #44 -- Emerging technical opportunities V   Blat #43 -- Don't get sick   Blat #42 -- My primary research tools   Blat #41 -- Weaving a tangled web   Blat #40 -- Making B/W print more colorful   Blat #39 -- Options for self-publishing   Blat #38 -- Winning the micro game   Blat #37 -- Emerging technical opportunities IV   Blat #36 -- Con Tests   Blat #35 -- Magic sinewaves   Blat #34 -- Catalogs using Adobe Acrobat PDF   Blat #33 -- The Mount Graham aerial tramway    Blat #32 -- Avoiding engineering ratholes   Blat #31 -- Some helpline hints   Blat #30 -- Flutterwumpers   Blat #29 -- When to patent   Blat #28 -- Some catalog musings   Blat #27 -- Emerging technical opportunities III   Blat #26 -- Picojustification techniques   Blat #25 -- Elegant simplicity   Blat #24 -- Becoming a purveyor of risk reduction   Blat #23 -- One thousand and one reviews   Blat #22 -- Patent horror stories   Blat #21 -- Book-on-demand publishing resources II   Blat #20 -- Book-on-demand publishing resources I   Blat #19 -- Bound & Determined   Blat #18 -- Inventor's organizations   Blat #17 -- Emerging technical opportunities II   Blat #16 -- Post justification editing   Blat #15 -- Terrific tone techniques   Blat #14 -- Revisiting Book-on-demand publishing   Blat #13 -- Insider research secrets   Blat #12 -- Why I like PostScript   Blat #11 -- New ISMM II introduction part 2   Blat #10 -- New ISMM II introduction part 1   Blat #09 -- Direct toner printed circuits   Blat #08 -- Stalking the wild paradigm   Blat #07 -- Mastering the advetorial   Blat #06 -- The case against patents   Blat #05 -- Son of desktop finishing   Blat #04 -- Emerging technologies I   Blat #03 -- Desktop finishing ideas   Blat #02 -- Stupendous stuff sources   Blat #01 -- Book-on-demand publishing

Click here for my PostScript Secrets reprints .

The Tech Musings Library

These are reprints from our older Tech Musings      Library that originally appeared as my print articles      in Electronics Now and its reincarnations. Each issue      covered many subjects both of electronic hobbiest      and electrical engineering interest.

Muse #153 -- Electrolysis, patents, surplus, tables..   Muse #152 -- Power, energy, shuffling, banners...   Muse #151 -- Chebycheff, magnetometry, humidity...   Muse #150 -- RFID, VMSK, Hydrogen, waxes...   Muse #149 -- Touch screens, fuel cells, transformers...   Muse #148 -- Taylor series, algae hydrogen, batteries..   Muse #147 -- Accellerometers, navigation, selsyns...   Muse #146 -- Electrochemistry, capacitor switching...   Muse #145 -- Digimatic code, magnetorhelogy, ....    Muse #144 -- Thermodouples, gambler's ruin, ...   Muse #143 --   ( not currently available )   Muse #142 -- Gauss-Jordan, induction heating, ...   Muse #141 -- Sub pixel res, rf switches, ultrasonics,...   Muse #140 -- PC drill, USGS maps, water soluble, ...   Muse #139 -- Hot tubs, radio astronomy, plastics...   Muse #138 -- Web logs, miracle antennas, impulse, ...   Muse #137 -- EIS spectrascopy, radiation detectors, ...   Muse #136 -- Boat anchors, twinkle lights, tachometers   Muse #135 -- Brain parity, impulse radio, Feynman,..   Muse #134 -- SETI, video overlay, aerial photos, ...   Muse #133 -- Dimmers, mil surplus, mag recording,..   Muse #132 -- Remote control, log graphs, Tesla, ...   Muse #131 -- Position detectors, rangefinding, RFID,..   Muse #130 -- Rail guns, Modutrols, Faraday, DNA, ...   Muse #129 -- DMX lighting, network comm, ...   Muse #128 -- Tesla turbine, impulse radio, class D, ...   Muse #127 -- Capacitor bounceback, DAA chips, PIC,..   Muse #126 -- Nitrogen cars, magnetic refrigeration,..   Muse #125 -- Crest factors, SAW filters, temp sensing,   Muse #124 -- Pseudoscience, wind energy, LED lamps,   Muse #123 -- AC power, A/D converters, DNA,...   Muse #122 -- Satellite imagry, phase shifters, Hilbert..   Muse #121 -- PFM wireless, homopolar, power meas...   Muse #120 -- PIC Calibar, brown's gas, meta studies,..   Muse #119 -- Data acquisition, reactance limiting,...   Muse #118 -- Laser testing, hydrogen, radio astronomy   Muse #117 -- PostScript robotics, melody IC's,....   Muse #116 -- Log files, error codes, low level measur...   Muse #115 -- PIC chips, hydrogen car, genlocking,...   Muse #114 -- Energy density, temp sensors, strawbale,   Muse #113 -- Pager vibrators, rms voltages, printers,..   Muse #112 -- AC power measurements, aerogels, ....   Muse #111 -- CIE diagrams, energy claims, video,...   Muse #110 -- NTSC, aerial photos, faders, chargens,..   Muse #109 -- Table lookup, idea mortality, audio,...   Muse #108 -- Baby PIC's, color organs, phase control,.   Muse #107 -- Linear digital filters, techno myths, ...   Muse #106 -- Determinants, induction heating, binding,   Muse #105 -- Navigation resources, digital filters, ...   Muse #104 -- Compass sensor, UFO's, vacuum form,..   Muse #103 -- Fluxgates, magnetometry, vectors, .....   Muse #102 -- Bionomials, colorizer, printer repair,,,,,   Muse #101 -- Delta-Wye, audio, Acrabat, Tesla, ....   Muse #100 -- BPower factor, mag levitation, web, ...   Muse #99 -- Hot chassis hazards, switchmode, fuse....   Muse #98 -- PIC programming, musis chips, tv sites,..   Muse #97 -- Transformers, agc, robotics, digital pots,..   Muse #96 -- Solar energy, bilateral switching, phone,,,   Muse #95 -- Lighting efficiency, product development,.   Muse #94-- MIDI electronic music, Basic Stamp,...   Muse #93 --Magic sinewaves, PCMCIA docs, ...   Muse #92 --GPS navigation, terahertz, pitot, ...   Muse #91 -- All channels FM, switched capacitors, ...   Muse #90 -- Four series, platethru, video toaster,...   Muse #89 --Basic Stamp, Fibonacci, Cubic splines...   Muse #88 --Acoustic cancelling,PIC micros, adaptors...

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The Hardware Hacker Library

These are reprints from our older Hardware Hacker      Library that originally appeared as my print articles      first in Modern Electronics and later in Electronics      Now. The name was changed after the media utterly      and totally trashed and subverted the word "hacker".

Hack #87 -- AC motor drives, basic stamps, magsines   Hack #86 -- Wavelets, DNA, engineering economics   Hack #85 -- TV data displays, brain inplants, sinewave   Hack #84 -- Auto computers, servicing intermittents,...   Hack #83 -- Halogen cycle, vector to step, PostScript..   Hack #82 -- Remote controls, virtual ways, FCC regs...   Hack #81 -- Helical resonators, laser service, reprints   Hack #80 -- Binary chain codes, SETI, batt charging...   Hack #79 -- Cold fusion, video driver, trans lines....   Hack #78 -- Recycling toner carts, research tools,...   Hack #77 -- Thermodynamics, solitons, Santa Claus, ...   Hack #76 -- Air turbines, FM dx, invention scams...   Hack #75 -- RBDS, human power, bus switches,...   Hack #74 -- Cogeneration resources, SCSI comm,...   Hack #73 -- Jukeboxes, aerogels, sonoluminescence. ..   Hack #72 -- Voice messaging, special effects, Acrobat...   Hack #71 -- CTCSS squelching, coin mechanisms,...   Hack #70 -- Digital photos, fluxgates, mag fields,...   Hack #69 -- Data compression, comm transparency,..   Hack #68 -- Pulse monitors, thermoelectric modules,...   Hack #67 -- FM traps, GPS, nonlinear graphics,...   Hack #66 -- Photopolymers, flying cars, pc drills, ...   Hack #65 -- Telemetry, maxmin, SETI, power xfer,...   Hack #64 -- Thermodynamic basics, reversibility,...   Hack #63 -- Video game repair, piezoelectrics, Curie...   Hack #62 -- Cubic splines, electrorhelogical fluids, ...   Hack #61 -- Nichrome, FCC part 68, scrambling, copy,.   Hack #60 -- Video toaster, EDM machining, broadcast.   Hack #59 -- Semilog plots, resonance, IC resources,...   Hack #58 -- Yagi antennas, navicubes, rate gyros,...   Hack #57 -- Distant FM reception, UFO's, boosters,...   Hack #56 -- Alternate latches, histograms, IC houses,..   Hack #55 -- Electronic halftones, idea marketing,....   Hack #54 -- Correllation fundamentals, Santa Claus,...   Hack #53 -- Dye based solar, RGB monitors, avionics,.   Hack #52 -- FM stereo broadcasters, Ockham's, ...   Hack #51 -- Laser printer repairs, sync separation, ....   Hack #50 -- Wavelets, piano & organs, musical notes,..   Hack #49 -- Caller id, wavelets, lumeloid, lab tests,...   Hack #48 -- Shielding, VGS, GPS, flyback sweeps,...   Hack #47 -- Fractals, FM stereo, home energy, ....   Hack #46 -- SMPTE time codes, solar energy, cases,...   Hack #45 -- Fuzzy data, tesla Coils, FCC regs, E-fields,   Hack #44 -- Inductive loads, Bakerizing, alternators,...   Hack #43 -- EPRI, focused X-rays, Buckyballs, .....   Hack #42 -- Power electronics, video crosshatch, ...     Hack #41 -- Electronic tuning, parametric amplifiers,...   Hack #40 -- VHF & microwave resources, toner carts,..   Hack #39 -- Infrared people detectors, liquid crystals,..   Hack #38 -- Visible lasers, motor resources, wavelets,.   Hack #37 -- Decibels, level meters, patent avoidance,..   Hack #36 -- DCT, sinewave gens, video compression,..   Hack #35 -- Vortex coolers, polyphase gens, mag refr..   Hack #34 -- SAW devices, active filters, DSP, temp,...   Hack #33 -- Magnetocaloric effect, log voltmeter, ...   Hack #32 -- Huffman codes, video drivers, runlength,..   Hack #31 -- Tune chips, blender controls, power basics,   Hack #30 -- Electronic levels, memory, cases, lasers,..   Hack #29 -- Hall effect, shape memory, lownoise amps,   Hack #28 -- Vapor detectors, lowmelt alloys, uv flames,   Hack #27 -- LDVT position, treasure finders, sync,...    Hack #26 -- Dew sensing, cold fusion, alarm resources,.   Hack #25 -- Fractal Ferns, Thermoelectrics, chaos, ....   Hack #24 -- Double sided pc boards, optical reprints...   Hack #23 -- Linear stepper motors, modelmaking, vid..   Hack #22 -- Filter capacitors, visible lasers, wireless...   Hack #21 -- Cheap digital compass, humidity measure...   Hack #20 -- Electrolytic chemistry, light show BBS,...   Hack #19 -- Bar code resources, oscilloscopes, CMOS..   Hack #18 -- Digital audio, Delta-Sigma A/D, sensors,..   Hack #17 -- SAW devices, call progress, state var filter.   Hack #16 -- Refilling SX carts, teleportation, upower...   Hack #15 -- Zero crossing detection, phase dimming,...   Hack #14 -- Pseudorandom sequences, white noise,....   Hack #13 -- Surface mount parts, IR filters, sinewaves..   Hack #12 -- Digital compass circuits, prototypes, ...   Hack #11 -- Navicube, Kroy Kolor, RGB TV, trade....   Hack #10 -- Lan of the 80's, pressure transducer,....   Hack #09 -- Synchronous inverters, Apple books, 16-bit   Hack #08 -- Remote controls, IR receivers, A/D conv..   Hack #07 -- Phone recording, nav, printed circuits...   Hack #06 -- Perspective, RS232, parts sources,,.   Hack #05 -- Ring detectors, toner carts, PostScript,...   Hack #04 -- Bar Codes, transducers, pneumatics...   Hack #03 -- Posistors, video ics, IIGS monitors,...   Hack #02 -- uv resins, electronic music, supercond...   Hack #01 -- Auto Electronics, tech lit, Santa Claus, pots

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