By T.K. Hareendran

International Electronic Design Freelancer • Technical Author • Hardware βeta Tester • Product Reviewer
Articles Written 469

Arduino Inside Automatic Staircase Light

Here’s an automatic minder to keep your stairway alighted while you’re near to it. One presence sensor wired to a microcontroller scans its environs and automatically activates a light source when it sees an object. […]

Charge-Pump Primer

If you build battery/usb powered electronics projects, often you’ll be in need of a high-voltage power supply. That is a power supply that has an output voltage higher than that catered by the battery. One […]

CMOS Toggle Switch with CD4049

Here’s a simple and clever way to build a toggle switch with a quite popular, highly available, and cheap CMOS logic chip CD4049UB. Since the little electronic toggle switch presented here is an easy to […]

An Easy 555 EC Sensor!

Aware that a particular circuit is needed to measure electrical conductivity (EC) of  a liquid. Since the conduction of current through a water solution is mainly dependent on the concentration of dissolved ionic substances such […]

Avalanche Pulse Generator – An Introduction

This prefatory article focuses on Avalanche pulse generators commonly used to generate fast rise time pulses. Often fast pulses are required when measuring slew rate or propagation delay, and for sampling. Fortunately, avalanche breakdown of […]

Micro Cooling Fan Governor

The Digispark Attiny85 development board is not only for novices – it’s also a tiny but great microcontroller development board for matured electronicists. Sure, the Digispark board offers almost everything you need i.e. digital I/Os […]

Poor man’s Bluetooth Microphone

A family party or a small get together, we all need some stunning music there to lighten up the festive mood. Well, today I’m going to talk about a simple do-it-yourself project that will give […]