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Jon Titus, a former designer and chief editor of EDN and Test & Measurement World magazines, remembers when "fast" signals operated at 10 MHz and programs came on paper tape. Email him with your thoughts on his Mechatronics Zone blog at jontitus@comcast.net.

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MCU Family Cuts Power, Expands LCD Drive Capability

I had a conversation with David Niewolny, a Freescale product marketing manager, about the company’s new “LL64″ processor, a member of the MC9S08 family, and thus properly called the MC9S08LL64. David explained Freescale developed this microcontroller (MCU) primarily for portable and industrial devices that can benefit from low power consumption and the capability to drive... More

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Where Are the Inexpensive-But-Useful Design Tools?

Recent information from a company pitched a new net-list editor at a cost of $5000, and that was a special introductory price. I have seen prices in the multi-thousand-dollar range for a variety of software-development, circuit-simulation, and circuit-design tools. That made me wonder where engineers can find low-cost yet capable tools for design work. Of course companies offer free software... More

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Miniature Motor Squiggles into Small Precision Devices

Look at small motors for a product design and you’ll find a gap between small DC motors and micro electromechanical systems (MEMSs) fabricated on a silicon wafer. New Scale Technologies has helped filled that gap by designing squiggle-motion motors, or squiggle motors, for engineers who need a tiny motor in miniature and subminiature applications. You can find out more at:... More

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Hot-Tub Pump Teardown & Lessons Learned

My neighbors decided to get rid of a small hot tub, so I put in my request for the pump and motor. I don’t like to waste a decent AC motor that might find use in my workshop. The pump arrived in a plastic-foam enclosure that included a control panel and an AC power cord. I pulled apart the enclosure and found a set of pipes and electronics. An aluminum box that contains the electronics... More

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Single CMOS Image Sensor Sees in 3-D

An email arrived from Canesta, a company that I hadn’t heard of, so I went to the Canesta Web site where I learned the company makes 3-D CMOS image sensors. You can buy or design 3-D vision systems with off-the shelf cameras, but most of these systems use off-axis laser beams or several cameras to grab images that intensive software processing turns into a 3-D image. That means they... More
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