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Projects and Circuits
RAINBOWLIGHTING CONTROLLER by David Geary
Brighten up your garden’s night-time colour scheme
INGENUITY UNLIMITED – Sharing your ideas with others
Betty’s Flasher; Water Safety Lock; Audio Frequency Synthesiser;
Line-O-Light; Automatic Morse Beacons; Fine-Tuning for DC Receivers
RADIO CONTROL FAILSAFE by Ken Ginn
How to keep your RC models safely controlled and prevent mayhem!
EPE WART ZAPPER by ThomasScarborough
Exterminate those unwanted warts!
ALPHAMOUSE GAME by John Becker
Let that mouse sort out those shifty characters!

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TECHNO TALK by Andy Emmerson
From POTS to PANS – telephone technology has reached its use-by date
NET WORK – THE INTERNET PAGE surfed by Alan Winstanley
Domains and IP Addresses; Broadband Turn-On
CIRCUIT SURGERYby Alan Winstanley and Ian Bell
Back-E.M.F. Protection; Overrated L.E.D.s
PRACTICALLY SPEAKING by Robert Penfold
A novice’s guide to buying and stocking-up components
PIC N’ MIX by Andrew Jarvis
Hex files – the truth is out there!
LIGHT EMITTING DIODES – OPERATION AND APPLICATIONS – 1
Basic Principles by Anthony H. Smith, BSc. (Hons)
Commencing a short series intended to answer all thosel.e.d. questions
you’ve longed to ask
HIGH SPEED BINARY TO DECIMAL FOR PICS by Peter Hemsley
It really is amazingly fast!

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