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    Projects being worked on during the forum outage?

    So, what electronics projects has everyone been working on while the forums were being restructured? I made a 10 stage marx generator with 500pf 10kv caps and a 6.3kv stage voltage. For those unaware, a marx generator is a device to charge caps in parallel and discharge in series, getting...
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    Soldering temperatures

    I just bought myself a Hakko 936 soldering station, and I don't really have anything to experiment with right now, but I was wondering, approximately what temperature do you use to solder what? Me and my friends will be soldering up a radio kit probably over the next week, and I'd like to...
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    Parallel port access from Java on XP

    I want to write a program in Java to control an HD44780 text LCD from the parallel port. I want to use Java for portability, ease in GUI creation, and because it's the language I'm studying right now. I can use the JNI to write a DLL in C++ which gives access to the port, but on NT, 2k...
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    PICmicro microcontrollers

    http://www.mstracey.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm has a great PIC tutorial.
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