HTC is announcing two brand new Windows Phone 7 smartphones, the HTC Titan and HTC Radar. The Titan is an enormous device with a 4.7-inch, WVGA (800 x 480 pixel ) and although it’s close to tablet category, it’s still a smartphone. It measures 130.6 x 70.6 x 9.9 mm but it still falls under [...]

Today we have repaired a LCD Monitor Philips  with model no: 190S, came with symptoms that will not to turn on . I opened it and saw that the five electrolytes are cracked and  then I replaced  them with the new capacitors , I checked the other capacitors with ESR meter and showed that they [...]

IFA starts tomorrow and a day sooner Samsung has announced a new tablet and a new smart phone. What do Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Galaxy Note have to offer? Samsung P6800 Galaxy Tab 7.7 The new tablet has a SuperAMOLED Plus 7.7-inch Display and resolution up to 1280 x 800. Although the numbers may not [...]

Mikroelektronika launched new web site LIBSTOCK-  community website for sharing libraries, projects and source codes  – http://www.libstock.com. They wants  LIBSTOCK to become the best place for code embedded programmers can have. Also they  allowed each code to have a blog, as the best way for promoting your work and providing marketing for your code. We [...]

Today we have repaired a LCD Monitor Samsung  with model no: 940NW, came with symptoms that will not to turn on and the led is blinking. I opened it and saw that the electrolytes in the position C109 (1000uF/25V) ,C110 (1000uF/25V) and C113 (820uF/25V) are cracked and  then I replaced  them with the new capacitors [...]

Limited time offer: order before August 11, 2011   Elektor started with digital print files in 1995 and that’s also the year the first annual CD-ROM appeared, enabling readers to browse Elektor on a PC, produce hard copy of their favourite articles, and search for keywords, all using a purpose designed shell program. Later year [...]

Overcome the fear of losing flying model or a model that forced landed. The touch down aircraft model is easier to findin dense shrubs and branches where acoustic marked. Electronic device for acoustic localization produces penetrating acoustic signal with two tones that will sound when the aircraft will lose telecommand signal. Anxiety and fear of [...]

Today we have repaired the Samsung LCD monitor with model no: 943NW , he come with symptoms that monitor off after 2 seconds. I opened it and saw that the electrolyte (100uF/400v) cracked, then I replaced the new capacitor, but the problem is still here, the monitor turns off after 2 seconds, I tried the [...]

Dual color (4 line x 3 column) led, 12 white and 12 blue are intermittently switched controlled by two NPN transistors BC337. The speed and duty/cycle timing of lighting duration is determined by NE555 oscilator. The number of repetition of sequential lighting of each group of led is determined by 5-stage divide-by-10 Johnson counter with [...]

Nowadays is so easy to build precision digital LC meter with LCD display and microcontrollers.But, what about 1997? There is my first very precision ANALOG LC METER. Look at this, butdo not fall in love in retro princess from past!!The analog LC-meter project (AP-LC1) have more then 3% accuracy. Really!There is no balanced bridge, or [...]

As most of you already know, mikroElektronika Development Boards are prefered systems in many educational fascilities all over the world. They are used in high-schools, universities, scientific laboratories, and other institutions where development and research is done. Electrotehnical High School “Mihailo Pupin” from Skopje,  Macedonia built a great electronics laboratory for practical projects used in [...]