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Testing A Discrete Boost Converter Circuit
Experimenting With DIY Boost Converters
Some Disassembly Required
Building, Un-building and Re-building Things
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Multipurpose BLDC Motor Controller: A (Difficult) Learning Experience
Designing Your Own BLDC Controller is Harder Than it Looks You don’t go too far these days without running into a brushless DC (BLDC) motor. Compared to brushed DC motors or AC motors, the BLDC motor has a lot of advantages- in many ways the BLDC motor manages to combine the advantages of both AC…
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Hexadecimal Value Display for 16 Bit Logic Input
Designing and Building a Hexadecimal Display for Small Computer and Logic Projects. I do digital design regularly, and it’s occasionally real handy to take a group of signals (e.g. an address bus) and display them. I don’t have a lot of great tools to do that though. Ordinarily I’d hook up my logic analyzer. That…
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Anodizing Aluminum Without Sulfuric Acid
Anodizing at Home, Using Sodium Bisulfsate Instead of Sulfuric Acid. Aluminum (along with most other metals) naturally grows a passivation layer of metal oxide. This protects the underlying metal from corrosion. That is why your car/house/other metal object doesn’t dissolve in the rain. Unfortunately this layer is very thin- only a few nanometers. A tiny…
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