Digital Dip Meter Project Code Now Available
Stuart Ball's Dip Meter

A code file associated with Stuart Ball’s article, “Build a Digital Dip Meter” (Circuit Cellar 271), is now available. Go to the Circuit Cellar FTP site to view the file.

Electrostatic Cleaning Robot Project
This image depicts two Electrostatic Cleaning Robots set up on two heliostats. (Source: S. Potter)

How do you clean a clean-energy generating system? With a microcontroller (and a few other parts, of course). An excellent example is US designer Scott Potter’s award-winning, Renesas RL78 microcontroller-based Electrostatic Cleaning Robot system that cleans heliostats (i.e., solar-tracking mirrors) … Continue reading