Silicon ChipContents - August 2022 SILICON CHIP
  1. Outer Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Subscriptions: PE Subscription
  4. Subscriptions
  5. Publisher's Letter: The power of batteries
  6. Feature: Time for a total rethink? by Mark Nelson
  7. Feature: Net Work by Alan Winstanley
  8. Project: Multi-purpose Battery Manager by Tim Blythman
  9. Project: Simple MIDI Music Keyboard by Tim Blythman
  10. Project: NANO PONG ON YOUR TV by TIM BLYTHMAN
  11. Project: USB Power Delivery Chargers by Jim Rowe
  12. Feature: Make it with Micromite by Phil Boyce
  13. Feature: KickStart by Mike Tooley
  14. Feature: Max’s Cool Beans by Max the Magnifi cent
  15. Feature: Flowcode Graphical Programming by Martin Whitlock
  16. Feature: Circuit Surgery by Ian Bell
  17. PCB Order Form
  18. Advertising Index

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  • Giant Boost for Batteries (December 2022)
  • Raudive Voices Revisited (January 2023)
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Practical Electronics Volume 51. No. 8 August 2022 ISSN 2632 573X Contents Projects and Circuits Multi-purpose Battery Manager by Tim Blythman uilding on our recent attery ulti ogger this design not only onitors hat s going on but also connects and disconnects loads based on battery charge state. 14 Simple MIDI Music Keyboard by Tim Blythman 26 his ey oard is a ollo u to our ey atri . t is ust as e i le and offers an easy way to make music, plus it can be repurposed for many other uses. Nano Pong by Tim Blythman Our Nano Pong game is modern and retro at the same time; it replaces the 70-odd discrete logic chips in the original with a single chip that costs about £1! 30 USB Power Delivery Chargers by Jim Rowe 36 Learn about low-cost modules that have appeared recently to take advantage of the dramatic growth in USB capability, especially in the area of power delivery (PD). Series, Features and Columns Flowcode C void interrupt( void) { if ( intcon & 4 ) { clear_ bit( intcon, 2) ; FCM_ INTERRUP T_ TMR o( ) ; Assembly movlw D′7′ bsf STA TUS, RP 0 bcf STA TUS, RP 1 movwf _ adcon1 movlw D′192′ movwf _ option_ reg Hex : 04 0000008 A 011228 37 : 08 0008 00F000F00S030 EF10000 : 1000100004 0EF2000A 0 EF300B A 110A 1229 28 35 2 8 6 C : 2000200D9 28 FE28 07 3 Techno Talk by Mark Nelson Time for a total rethink? 8 Net Work by Alan Winstanley A round-up of topical technological issues and trends from the UK and around the world. 10 Make it with Micromite by Phil Boyce Part 38: How to build a PicoMite BackPack 40 KickStart by Mike Tooley Part 9: Exploring microcontroller digital-to-analogue conversion 47 a s Cool eans y ax The agnificent Flashing LEDs and drooling engineers – Part 30 54 Flowcode Graphical Programming by Martin Whitlock Part 5: Building a Digital Clock 58 Circuit Surgery by Ian Bell Distortion and distortion circuits – Part 3 65 Wireless for the Warrior Subscribe to Practical Electronics and save money Reader services – Editorial and Advertising Departments Editorial The power of batteries Exclusive Microchip reader offer Win a Microchip SAM V71 Xplained Ultra Evaluation Kit PE Teach-In 8 Practical Electronics PCB Service PCBs for Practical Electronics projects Classified ads and Advertiser inde Next month! – highlights of our next issue of Practical Electronics 2 4 7 7 Regulars and Services 9 25 70 72 Made in the UK. Written in Britain, Australia, the US and Ireland. Read everywhere. © Electron Publishing Limited 2022 Copyright in all drawings, photographs, articles, technical designs, software and intellectual property published in Practical Electronics is fully protected, and reproduction or imitation in whole or in part are expressly forbidden. The September 2022 issue of Practical Electronics will be published on Thursday, 4 August 2022 – see page 72. Practical Electronics | August | 2022 1