Mims Circuit Scrapbook V.IIHere it is--a collection of Forrest Mims's classic work from the Modern Electronics magazine! Using commonly available components and remarkable ingenuity, Forrest shows you how to build and experiment with circuits like these: analog comparators; audio synthesizers; data loggers; fiber optic sensors; laser diode devices; MOSFET oscillators; piezoelectronics; power electronics; programmable function generators; pulse generators; radio control systems and much, much, more!
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Contents
Rediscovering the Transistor | 3 |
Experimenting with MOSFET Power | 10 |
An Ultrasimple Power MOSFET Timer | 17 |
A DualPolarity FiveVolt Power Supply | 32 |
An LM3905 Ap Note | 38 |
An EasytoUse Universal Active Filter | 44 |
A Fully Adjustable Pulse Generator | 50 |
A Sound Effects Generator | 57 |
FIVE | 105 |
Experimenting with LowCost Fiber | 113 |
Experimenting with Kodaks Disc Camera | 147 |
Part 3Radio Control and Aerial | 156 |
73 | 158 |
Sensors and Sensing Systems | 165 |
Homemade PressureSensitive Resistors | 172 |
Piezoelectronics Thermoelectronics | 213 |
Common terms and phrases
adjusted alarm alerter amplifier amplitude analog applications audio balloon battery beam breadboard cadmium sulfide capacitor ceramic chip circuit board circuit in Fig clock CMOS components connected crystal cw laser diodes decoder designed detect detector devices disc camera drive DTMF duration electrical electronic electroscope emitted emitter experiment fiber optic Figure filter flash foil Forrest Mims frequency function infrared installed joystick kite lamp laser diode lens light lightwave meter microphone milliamperes miniature modified disc modulated monitor MOSFET motor near-infrared ohms op amp operation optical fiber optoisolator oscillator output package photodiode photoresistor phototransistor piezoelectric plastic potentiometer power supply pressure-sensitive resistor pulse radiation Radio Shack radio-controlled range RC system receiver relay resistance resistor sensor switch servo servomechanism shown in Fig solder sound temperature thermistor timer Touch Tone transducer transistor transmitter trigger tube ultrasonic voltage volts wire