Practical
Electronics
Volume 51. No. 1
January 2022
ISSN 2632 573X
Contents
Projects and Circuits
Vintage Battery Radio Li-ion Power Supply by Ken Kranz and Nicholas Vinen
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and
atteries have een uno taina le or so e ti e. his
co act and easy to uild odule uses i ion or i o cells.
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The MiniHeart by John Clarke
ive a avourite so t toy a eating heart ith oth a so t sound and a real eat
it could rela a a y a u y or even hel you slee etter
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Balanced Input and Attenuator for the USB SuperCodec – Part 2
by Phil Prosser
s descri ed last onth this add on oard or the
u er odec rovides t o
alanced in uts and fits in the sa e instru ent case no let s uild it
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The Fox Report by Barry Fox
o er as ree as the ind
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Techno Talk by Mark Nelson
o
uning ith nature
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Series, Features and Columns
Net Work by Alan Winstanley
he latest to ical ne s a out
s the un o u grading to
u dates on satellite and s ace technology.
Flowcode
C
void interrupt(void)
{
if (intcon & 4)
{
clear_bit(intcon, 2);
FCM_INTERRUPT_TMR
o();
movlw D′7′
bsf STATUS, RP0
bcf STATUS, RP1
movwf _adcon1
movlw D′192′
movwf _option_reg
Hex
:040000008A01122837
:08000800F000F00S030
EF10000
:10001000040EF2000A0
EF300BA110A122928352
86C
:2000200D928FE28073
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