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2. How to make Printed Circuit Boards.
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... of paper towel with surgical spirit and rubbing the board. Almost instantly, the paper towel will start to turn green as the emulsion is removed. If you leave a piece of shiny copper in the open air it ...

3. Microchip's 44 Pin Demo board - what to do with it once you've flashed the LED's
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... a green dot on each LED (top green circle). This shows you which way around the LED should be positioned. Next, solder the 9 x bi-colour SMT LED's. These LED's contain 2 LED's in one package; one red ...

4. Turn your car into a hybrid
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... Kit could go 30 miles on battery power alone. Target kit cost is $3,000 to $5,000—so you figure out the payback period for your car. Perry's invention received first prize in a green energy competition ...

5. Linear Technology’s LT3743 Synchronous Step-Down LED Driver Delivers 20A+ of Continuous LED Current
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High efficiency, 2μsec switching capability and compact size allow LEDs to replace incandescent light sources in theater-class DLP Projectors & architectural lighting. Linear Technology’s high-powered ...

6. The Life and Work of Konrad Zuse (Part 7)
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... color woodcut (60cm x 80cm) of the waterfall Zipfelsfälle in Hinterstein by Konrad Zuse. He used three separate wood plates, one for yellow, one for blue, and one for red (the green color was created from ...

7. Breadboard Project Protector – Power Cut
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... value is around 700mA. A green l.e.d. (D1) lights when all is well. Once the cutout has operated, the device latches in its cutout state, and a red l.e.d. (D2) lights to indicate that the cut-out has operated. ...

8. Communications Flexibility is the Key to an interoperable “Smart” Grid
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... and other use cases, power line communications such as HomePlug® Green PHY will be needed for approximately 10-15% of the HAN applications for smart metering. Other wireless methods such as Direct Wi-Fi, ...

9. Announcing The TechBites Bright Idea LED Dev Kit Giveaway Contest
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... an article to be published as a feature on the TechBites Green power community. Publishing with us is a great way to share your ideas with your fellow green-techies, not to mention earn a little street ...

10. Cool Beans: Using Skype for screen sharing and other stuff
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... Call (up to 25 people) If you've already saved a group in your contacts and want to call that group, all you have to do is click on the group in your Contact list and then click the green Call Group button. ...

11. Solar PV Technology Update
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... Ventures believes that power electronics in residential PV systems will eventually become integral to the PV module.  GreenTech Media looked at the pros & cons of micro-inverters, because centralized ...

12. Cool Beans: USB Pet Rock
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... uncertain times, it's nice to know that these little scamps are the greenest USB products ever created because they consume absolutely no electricity. Even better, they are compatible with every operating ...

13. Omnidirectional Pendulum – In The Swing
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... VR1 so that green LED D1 pulses once only as the pendulum falls towards the center of gravity – not as it shoots away. Some experimentation is needed using preset VR2 to synchronize the electromagnet’s ...

14. Bright Idea LED Dev Kit Giveaway Update - More Prizes, More Lead Time, Less Hassle
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... feature on the TechBites Green power community. Publishing with us is a great way to share your ideas with your fellow green-techies, not to mention earn a little street cred.  Entering the Bright Idea ...

15. Triad Semiconductor’s Mixed-Signal Programmable ASIC Shows Promise For Many Green Power Applications
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... for use in a variety of green power applications, including solar/wind inverters, motor controllers, and Smart Grid-enabled devices. Equally important, the building analog building blocks allow a competent ...

16. Need a handy low-cost benchtop supply? Use an old PC ATX PSU!
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... S2 turns it off again. I used a yellow LED for D1 (indicates when Power Good goes low, about 300ms after power up), and green for D2 (indicates standby mode). I designed the PCB and had a batch made up ...

17. Pythagoras Solar’s Photovoltaic Window Technology Delivers Energy and Unobstructed Views.
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... Pythagoras Solar’s web site - http://www.pythagoras-solar.com,   Pythagoras Solar Says: Pythagoras Solar Announces Photovoltaic Glass Unit (PVGU), First Green Building Material to Combine Energy Efficiency, ...

18. Smart Home/Smart Grid Product Survey Part 1 – The BuLogics Smart Grid Home Controller
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Introduction: BuLogics and 4Home Media re not the only players in the increasingly-crowded residential energy management market but they are good examples of the stampede of manufacturers and developers ...

19. Win TI's Smart LED Development Kit - A sneak peek at our upcoming design contest
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Pssst – wanna win an LED lighting development kit? That’s right, Texas Instruments is letting me give away one of their slick little LED Piccolo-powered LED developer’s Kits to the person who comes up ...

20. Microchip’s Synchronous MOSFET Driver Delivers Efficiency In CPU/FPGA and Motor Power Supplies
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... exceptionally “green” standby mode. The big difference between the two drivers is that the ‘14700 has independent controls for the high-side and low-side gate drives and several other features that allow ...