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Super In-Depth $15 Curve Tracer Project

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[Jason Jones] has always wanted a curve tracer for his home shop. When he was starting out in electronics he fell in love with a machine called a Huntron Tracker 2000. This machine would feed a sine wave into a circuit on one side and plot a XY graph on the other.

[Jason] figured that with a modern microcontroller such a device could be build simply and cheaply for around $15 dollars. With that requirement in mind he set out to build it. He selected a PIC24F16KM202 for the brain and got to work.

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HALT In The Name Of Testing

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“Did I forget something?” It’s that nagging feeling every engineer has when their project is about to be deployed – it may be a product about to be ramped into production, a low volume product, or even a one off like a microsatellite. If you have the time and a few prototypes to spare though, there are ways to alleviate these worries. The key is a test method which has been used in aerospace, military, and other industries for years – Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT).

How to HALT

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Encryption and the Dark Side

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The saga continues … as it should and will. A front page article appeared in the May 17, 2016 issue of The New York Times, by Paul Mozur and Jane Perlez, with the title “Chinese Panel Quietly Grills Silicon Valley: Apple and Others Face Security Checks.” It describes the retaliation that was entirely expected. The […]

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5 Ways to Add Value to Your Business through User Experience (UX)

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Security products are not simple e-commerce websites. They are enterprise software products that enable pivotal business goals for customers. Yet as complexity grows, ease of use and other aspects of user experience (UX) can be overlooked and de-prioritized to make way for more features. But as Haroon Meer of Thinkst was quoted in CSO Online: […]… Read More

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