Circuit Cellar Issue 216 July 2008-PDF

Issue #216July 2008Theme: Internet & Connectivity TASK MANAGER—Energy Costs Drive Design Ingenuity, by C. J. Abate, p. 4NEW PRODUCT NEWS—edited by John Gorsky, p. 8TEST YOUR EQ—p. 10CROSSWORD—p. 93 ’Net-Enabled Alarm Clock, by DJ Delorie, p. 12INTELLIGENT ENERGY SOLUTIONS—LESSONS FROM THE TRENCHES: Living And Working Off The Grid: Part 1: Planning And Design, by George Martin. p. 22Internet Information Retrieval: Target And Display Web Site Content, by Fernando Jordan, p. 30Launch Control: Build A Coil Gun Controller And Launcher, by Andrew Sterian, p. 38Card Connection: Magnetic Card Data Decoding And Transmission, by Carlo Tauraso, p. 46Create A Modbus Slave, by Aubrey Kagan, p. 54PSoC Design Techniques (Part 1): Build An Eight-Channel Mixer, by Chris Paiano, p. 62Sound Effects Processing, by Robert Papp, p. 69FROM THE BENCH—Electric Motor Technology: Theory, Construction, And Requirements, by Jeff Bachiochi, p. 74SILICON UPDATE—MIPS For The Masses, by Tom Cantrell, p. 80PRIORIT