For portable-sensing and data- acquisition applications, a laptop computer and its parallel port (LPT) make good bedfellows. Yet in the effort to extend battery life, many microprocessors and entire ...

In this chapter, I will present a few useful “cookbook” applications for real-time control circuits designed to perform some specific low-level task and interface with a master controller for ...

Today's how-to comes from some research for one of our top-secret projects. We'll be loading up a remote control airplane with some customized electronics, and we really don't want to crash it. In ...