Publications of Don Lancaster Solid-state 3-channel color organ Simplified solid-state color organ Light dimmer & power-tool control Four and five layer semiconductor diodes New SCR developments Multipurpose electronic control: lamp dimmer Chirp, a new radar technique Put your best meter face forward Low-cost hi-fi color organ Tools for the electronic hobbyist Solid-state dimmers & power controls Dymwatt Optical link: a new circuit tool Parts profiles Build the Li'l Dusker [the light watchman] Build your own dual-throttle power-tool speed control Integrated circuits: what's available? Hi-fi a go-go lamps [incandescent lamps controlled by audio signal] Amplification using switching techniques Nanosecond pulses: techniques & applications Using new low-cost integrated circuits Pulse generator Semiconductor interval timer Varactor diode applications Insulated gate transistor Musette color organ Switching-mode power conversion Integrated circuits Integrated circuit amplifier you can build for under $6! Linear integrated circuits: what's available? Square deal audio generator Electronic metal locators Logic demon [duplicating the logic functions of giant electronic computers] Want to build an integrated circuit binary counter? IC-67 metal locator Build the amligner Build the supertrol [sequence generator] Data from the Readers' Guide Retrospective Electronics World Electronics World Electronics World Electronics World Electronics World Electronics World April 1963 January 1964 July 1964 October 1964 December 1964 January 1965 page 55-8+ page 50+ page 46-7+ page 61-4+ page 25-7+ page 36-7 Electronics World Popular Electronics Popular Electronics Popular Electronics Electronics World Popular Electronics Electronics World Popular Electronics Popular Electronics Popular Science January 1965 February 1965 March 1965 March 1965 May 1965 May 1965 September 1965 September 1965 September 1965 November 1965 page 42-3+ page 71-2+ page 43-7 page 65-70+ page 34-6+ page 71-3+ page 36-9 page 56-8+ page 73-6+ page 128-30 Electronics World Popular Electronics November 1965 January 1966 page 47-9+ page 64-6+ Electronics World Electronics World February 1966 February 1966 page 30-2+ page 37-9+ Electronics World Popular Electronics Electronics World Electronics World Electronics World Popular Electronics Electronics World Popular Electronics Popular Electronics March 1966 April 1966 May 1966 June 1966 July 1966 July 1966 September 1966 October 1966 October 1966 page 50-2+ page 60-2 page 82-4 page 43-6+ page 34-6+ page 56-62+ page 37-90 page 52-6+ page 57-9+ Electronics World Popular Electronics Electronics World Popular Electronics November 1966 November 1966 December 1966 December 1966 page 23-6+ page 59-63 page 39-42+ page 41-5+ Popular Electronics December 1966 page 57-61+ Popular Electronics Popular Electronics Popular Electronics January 1967 February 1967 March 1967 page 41-8+ page 60-1+ page 41-4+ Publications of Don Lancaster Operational amplifier: circuits & applications Using the new constant-current diodes Audio integrated circuits, what's available? Build direct readout IC freq meter Extended resonance curves Experimenter's professional power supply Build an IC Testone [utility square-wave generator] Plastic power transistors advantages and applications Differential amplifier Build ultra-fast electronic stopwatch IC decimal counting techniques Build a musical pitch reference [integratedcircuit frequency synthesizer] Build the Popular Electronics digital voltohmmeter Build the Popular Electronics Universal frequency counter Thermoluminescence, theory & applications How IC logic circuits work Paleomagnetism & archeomagnetism Psychedelia 1 IC experimenter's corner Build numeric glow tube DCU Build the Digital logic microlab Predetermining decimal counter Add-subtract MOS IC decimal counter Assembling the Popular Electronics miniDVM Build the psych-tone [melody synthesizer] Build a digi-viewer [automotic in-operation testing of digital IC's] Can you beat tic-tac-tronix? Liquid crystal displays Solid-state dual-clock generator Build RE's digital printing computer Build R-E's logic demonstrator Superclock: new digital timekeeper Build this $40 IC function generator Build R-E's grinchwal digital test equipment Grinchwal readout module Build R-E's grinchwal digital test equipment Low cost keyboards Data from the Readers' Guide Retrospective Electronics World August 1967 page 49-52+ Electronics World Electronics World Popular Electronics Electronics World Popular Electronics Popular Electronics October 1967 October 1967 October 1967 November 1967 November 1967 January 1968 page 30-1+ page 34-6 page 53-6+ page 36 page 71-3+ page 27-9 Electronics World February 1968 page 50-2 Electronics World Popular Electronics Electronics World Popular Electronics February 1968 March 1968 September 1968 September 1968 page 53-7 page 27-34+ page 40-3+ page 41-7+ Popular Electronics December 1968 page 29-40+ Popular Electronics March 1969 page 33-5+ Electronics World Radio-Electronics Electronics World Popular Electronics Popular Electronics Popular Electronics Popular Electronics Electronics World Electronics World Popular Electronics March 1969 May 1969 September 1969 September 1969 February 1970 February 1970 April 1970 May 1970 June 1970 September 1970 page 43-6 page 32-6 page 23-6+ page 27-35+ page 29-31 page 33-5+ page 27-35+ page 34-6+ page 45-8+ page 35+ Popular Electronics Popular Electronics February 1971 March 1971 page 25-35 page 41-6 Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics December 1971 February 1972 February 1972 April 1972 May 1972 July 1972 September 1972 November 1972 February 1973 February 1973 February 1973 page 32-5+ page 33-6+ page 55-7 page 50-3+ page 51-3 page 54-8 page 36-41 page 33-6 page 51-3 page 51-3 page 54-7+ Publications of Don Lancaster Build an ASCII keyboard encoder Experiment with WWVB TV typewriter Introduction to electronic music How active filters work Components for electronic music systems CMOS: why is it so good? Electronic music pitch standards IC's for electronic music Build improved ASCII encoder Pitch generators for electronic music ASCII keyboard and encoder Active bandpass filters Build the CMOS microlab Understanding MOS character generators Understanding calculator IC's How to select EM keyboards & controllers [for electronic music synthesizers] What's a RAM? [Random access memory] Build Digiviewer II Selecting an electronic music synthesizer Keying & VCA circuits for electronic music instruments Keying & VCA circuits for electronic music instruments Understanding pseudo-random circuits IC update: understanding the op amp Timbre & voicing circuits for electronic music Imitating musical instruments with synthesized sound Envelope generators & sequences for electronic music Music modules to build your own synthesizer Create sinewaves using digital IC's Understanding active filters Six CMOS circuits for experimenters Build the TVT-6: a low-cost direct video display Hex-to-ASCII converter for your TVT-6 Data from the Readers' Guide Retrospective Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Popular Electronics Radio-Electronics Popular Electronics Radio-Electronics Popular Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Popular Electronics Popular Electronics Radio-Electronics Popular Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Popular Electronics April 1973 August 1973 September 1973 October 1973 November 1973 November 1973 December 1973 January 1974 February 1974 February 1974 February 1974 April 1974 May 1974 June 1974 June 1974 July 1974 July 1974 page 55-9 page 48-51 page 43-5+ page 35-7 page 42-4+ page 47-50 page 33-6+ page 39-43 page 49-52 page 59-61+ page 98-101 page 27-31 page 40-1+ page 40-4 page 48-52 page 38-41+ page 42-4 Radio-Electronics Popular Electronics Popular Electronics Popular Electronics September 1974 September 1974 October 1974 January 1975 page 50-3+ page 63+ page 50-1 page 60-3 Popular Electronics February 1975 page 37-9 Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Popular Electronics April 1975 May 1975 June 1975 page 42-3+ page 51-3+ page 31-5 Popular Electronics August 1975 page 37-9+ Popular Electronics January 1976 page 58-62 Popular Electronics June 1976 page 59-66 Radio-Electronics Popular Electronics Popular Electronics Popular Electronics November 1976 December 1976 April 1977 July 1977 page 59-61+ page 69-73 page 46-7 page 47-52 Popular Electronics October 1977 page 49-52 Publications of Don Lancaster Hardware Hacker: Tell Me about EEPOT's Hardware Hacker: What Are Trade Journals? Harware Hacker: Is There Really a Santa-Claus Machine? Hardware Hacker: What's New in the Technical Literature? Superconductors for the Hacker Liquid-Level Detectors Hardware Hacker: Tips, Products, and Publications Hardware Hacker Hardware Hacker Hardware Hacker Hardware Hacker: Remote Controls and a Great A/D Converter! Hardware Hacker: A/D and D/A Conversion Hardware Hacker Hardware Hacker: A Cheap Color Fuser Hardware Hacker: A Solid-State Digital Compass Hardware Hacker: A New "Disco" Circuit Hardware Hacker Hardware Hacker: Phase-Plane Plots Hardware Hacker: Soup Cans Full of Nuts Hardware Hacker: Getting an Oscilloscope Hardware Hacker: Try Cold Fusion for Yourself! Hardware Hacker: Humidity Measurement Hardware Hacker: PC-Board Breakthrough Hardware Hacker--Cold-Fusion Papers and Kits Hardware Hacker Hardware Hacker--Alternate-Energy Resources Hardware Hacker PostScript Insider Secrets Hardware Hacker: Power-Control Fundamentals High-Performance PostScript Hardware Hacker Hardware Hacker Hardware Hacker Hardware Hacker Hardware Hacker Hardware Hacker Hardware Hacker Data from ProQuest Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Jan 1988 Jan 1988 Jan 1988 pg 71 (2 pages) pg 72 (2 pages) pg 73 (3 pages) Radio-Electronics Jan 1988 pg 75 (2 pages) Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Feb 1988 Feb 1988 Mar 1988 pg 73 (7 pages) pg 75 (4 pages) pg 71 (7 pages) Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics May 1988 Jun 1988 Jul 1988 Aug 1988 pg 69 (7 pages) pg 65 (6 pages) pg 69 (6 pages) pg 69 (6 pages) Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Sep 1988 Oct 1988 Nov 1988 Dec 1988 pg 68 (7 pages) pg 71 (7 pages) pg 32 (6 pages) pg 33 (5 pages) Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Mar 1989 Apr 1989 May 1989 Jun 1989 Jul 1989 Aug 1989 pg 25 (8 pages) pg 25 (5 pages) pg 61 (5 pages) pg 67 (8 pages) pg 66 (6 pages) pg 64 (7 pages) Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Sep 1989 Dec 1989 Feb 1990 pg 65 (7 pages) pg 68 (9 pages) pg 67 (7 pages) Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Byte Radio-Electronics Mar 1990 Apr 1990 Jun 1990 Jul 1990 Jul 1990 pg 58 (8 pages) pg 59 (8 pages) pg 63 (6 pages) pg 293 (6 pages) pg 62 (7 pages) Byte Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Radio-Electronics Aug 1990 Oct 1990 Nov 1990 Jan 1991 Apr 1991 May 1991 Jun 1991 Dec 1991 pg 297 (4 pages) pg 77 (7 pages) pg 69 (6 pages) pg 68 (8 pages) pg 71 (6 pages) pg 65 (7 pages) pg 65 (6 pages) pg 69 (6 pages) Publications of Don Lancaster The case against patents Hardware Hacker Top-Octave Generator Hardware hacker Hardware hacker An "all-channels" FM transmitter Understanding Piot tubes Controllers GPS update A new Internet directory New tech lit Another patent horror story Pseudoscience strikes again Lamps and lighting efficiency Reverse engineering Electronics potpourri PIC programming tricks, adressing modes, and an update for Adobe Acrobat Switching power supplies, the hot chassis, and more PIC tricks Modern power-factor correction and Internet addressing Delta-wye transforms, and building your own Tesla coil "Colorizer" for PostScript, using binomial coeffecients, laser printer repairs, and more An introduction to vectors, Earth-field magnetometry, new flux-gate sensors and ICs, and more Magnetometer update, vacuum forming, and more Understanding digital filters, using your time profitably, and more Solving linear equations, induction heating, and more Debunking techno-myths, linear-phase digital filters, and more Miracle energy sources, new PICs, a history of color organs, and more The idea-mortality curve, table lookups, and more Video, video editing, character generators, and more Data from ProQuest The Whole Earth Review Radio - Electronics Radio - Electronics Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Winter 1992 Jan 1992 Mar 1992 Feb 1995 Jun 1995 Sep 1995 Oct 1995 Oct 1995 Oct 1995 Oct 1995 Oct 1995 Nov 1995 Dec 1995 Jan 1996 Feb 1996 Mar 1996 Apr 1996 pg 67 (6 pages) pg 74 (4 pages) pg 75 (7 pages) pg 73 (7 pages) pg 46 (7 pages) pg 47 pg 48 (2 pages) pg 49 (2 pages) pg 50 (2 pages) pg 51 (2 pages) pg 114 (6 pages) pg 41 (7 pages) pg 39 (7 pages) pg 51 (6 pages) pg 49 (6 pages) pg 41 (1 page) Electronics Now May 1996 pg 43 (6 pages) Electronics Now Jun 1996 pg 45 (7 pages) Electronics Now Jul 1996 pg 29 (6 pages) Electronics Now Aug 1996 pg 63 (6 pages) Electronics Now Sep 1996 pg 65 (6 pages) Electronics Now Oct 1996 pg 61 (5 pages) Electronics Now Nov 1996 pg 61 (6 pages) Electronics Now Dec 1996 pg 72 (6 pages) Electronics Now Jan 1997 pg 59 (5 pages) Electronics Now Feb 1997 pg 65 (5 pages) Electronics Now Mar 1997 pg 67 (6 pages) Electronics Now Apr 1997 pg 63 (6 pages) Publications of Don Lancaster Evaluating energy claims, color systems, a new current-monitor IC, and more Measuring power, a cheap extension lock out, a correction, and more A great new printer, using PostScript as a computer language, and much more Understanding source impedance, electrochemistry basics, the energy density of gasoline, and more A new TV typewriter, hydrogen as a fuel, and more Measuring low-voltage signals, reading Website log files, and more Homopolar generators, melody ICs, and more Radio astronomy, the enigma of the Faraday disc, and more A look at reactance limiting, more on miracle motors, handheld data acquisition, and more Investigating Brown's gas, a tiny TV generator, and more FM transmitters, understanding the Faraday disc, and more All about quadrature, and more The right way to measure AC power Some "ExtraOrdinary" Science Papers and Videos, and More Understanding crest factors, temperaturesensing circuits, and more Alternate power sources for cars, one-chip line-powered supplies, and more "Free" energy, bounceback in capacitors, and more Buying surplus electronics, class D audio amps, and more Pseudoscience today, theater lighting controls, and more Experimenting with rail guns, and more Optical rangefinding, the right way to measure AC power, and more Measuring luminosity, hydrogen absurdities exposed, and a remote control for your cat AC and DC lamp-dimmer circuits, and more Underwater arc absurdities, character generators for video, and more Pulse radio, Brain parity, Richard Feynman, and more Data from ProQuest Electronics Now May 1997 pg 65 (6 pages) Electronics Now Jun 1997 pg 59 (6 pages) Electronics Now Jul 1997 pg 50 (6 pages) Electronics Now Aug 1997 pg 63 (7 pages) Electronics Now Sep 1997 pg 59 (6 pages) Electronics Now Oct 1997 pg 69 (6 pages) Electronics Now Electronics Now Nov 1997 Dec 1997 pg 57 (5 pages) pg 64 (6 pages) Electronics Now Jan 1998 pg 66 (6 pages) Electronics Now Feb 1998 pg 22 (6 pages) Electronics Now Mar 1998 pg 62 (6 pages) Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Apr 1998 May 1998 Jun 1998 pg 65 (6 pages) pg 57 (5 pages) pg 17 (5 pages) Electronics Now Jul 1998 pg 53 (6 pages) Electronics Now Aug 1998 pg 57 (6 pages) Electronics Now Sep 1998 pg 63 (5 pages) Electronics Now Oct 1998 pg 63 (6 pages) Electronics Now Nov 1998 pg 54 (5 pages) Electronics Now Electronics Now Dec 1998 Jan 1999 pg 57 (5 pages) pg 55 (6 pages) Electronics Now Feb 1999 pg 54 (5 pages) Electronics Now Electronics Now Mar 1999 Apr 1999 pg 57 (6 pages) pg 51 (6 pages) Electronics Now May 1999 pg 91 (6 pages) Publications of Don Lancaster Twinkle, twinkle, little lights, and more EIS impedance spectroscopy, new current sensors, and more Look at "miracle" antennas, and more SETI at home, hot-tub economics, and more A low-cost PC board drilling system, and more Sub-pixel secrets, diodes as RF switches, and more A mixed bag PostScript integration, X-ray fluorescence, preventing CD-R blowups, and more Temperature measurements, thermocuple fundamentals, gambling simulation, working with newsgroups, and more Fitting Bezier curves, machine-tool interface details, PIC and basic stamp books, and more Pulse electrolysis myths, extracting acrobat, PDF URLs, versatile capacitor switching, contactless charger update, and more Synchros and selsyns and accelerometers,oh, my! Algae hydrogen source, applying Taylor series, surplus & action update, lithium polymer batteries, and understanding nonlinearity Data from ProQuest Electronics Now Electronics Now Jun 1999 Jul 1999 pg 78 (6 pages) pg 87 (6 pages) Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Electronics Now Aug 1999 Sep 1999 Oct 1999 Nov 1999 pg 80 (6 pages) pg 90 (6 pages) pg 79 (6 pages) pg 90 (6 pages) Electronics Now Poptronics Dec 1999 Jan 2000 pg 88 (6 pages) pg 66 (6 pages) Poptronics Feb 2000 pg 61 (6 pages) Poptronics Mar 2000 pg 67 (5 pages) Poptronics Apr 2000 pg 60 (6 pages) Poptronics May 2000 pg 61 (5 pages) Poptronics Jun 2000 pg 66 (6 pages)