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  1. Ian

    Amateur Rockets

    Are there any rocketry enthusiasts here? Every so often I hear something on the news about various amateur rocket projects managing to take some very neat photos of the earth curvature. Here's an example of one of the projects in the UK: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cuspaceflight/news.php I'm...
  2. Ian

    Serial LCD Display

    Was it Matrix Orbital you were thinking of? They do USB/Serial LCDs that work with a wide range of display software: http://www.matrixorbital.com/ (the site seems to be down for me at the moment though). You can use LCD Studio (http://www.lcdstudio.com/) to get some neat displays:
  3. Ian

    voltage-controlled amplifier

    Welcome to the forums Bianca, I have merged your two threads as they were on the same topic. Please just create one thread per topic in future :). As the notice at the top of this forum mentions, we can help you work through a problem - but we won't do the work for you. How far have you got on...
  4. Ian

    Ideas and Feedback

    Yep, there does seem to be a growing number of alarm system enquiries - once I'm back home I'll take a look at add this and any other relevant sections.
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    Ideas and Feedback

    At some point we may add a section where there can be classifieds or a section where useful commercial information could be added. At the moment, 95% of the commercial posts are spam for iphones, electronics components etc.. - so if you see one of those, just click the "report post" button and...
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    some forum use tutorials

    No problem! I'm glad it's working now :).
  7. Ian

    some forum use tutorials

    I tried the same thing with your BMP image, but I can't get it to display in IE8 :confused:. Perhaps it only works with GIF/JPG/PNG images? No wonder you were having problems, I see the confusion now! It should work for other file extensions though :).
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    some forum use tutorials

    Unfortunatly it's not possible to generate thumbnails from BMP images on the forums, it only works for JPG and GIF images :(. I've just found this out now and tried to change it, but it's down to a limitation with the image encoding used. However, it is possible to insert an inline image when...
  9. Ian

    some forum use tutorials

    Haha, that's quite a big smilie :D If the image is already on the net then you can use the "insert image" icon that Steve used in the post above ()... or if the image is on your PC you'll need to attach it using the paperclip icon (or the attachments button). This will insert thumbnails at the...
  10. Ian

    Noisy Neighbour Punisher!

    Braken, have you tried contacting the council about this? I had a problem with noisy neighbours a few months ago (I live in an apartment block, and the neighbours decided to play insanely loud music in the middle of the night, every night). After going round and trying to sort it out by talking...
  11. Ian

    DC Electronic Tutorials Section

    Glad you like it :D The last section on Digital Electronics is now online : https://www.electronicspoint.com/digital-electronics-f151.html
  12. Ian

    DC Electronic Tutorials Section

    Semiconductor section is now online: https://www.electronicspoint.com/semiconductors-f137.html
  13. Ian

    DC Electronic Tutorials Section

    AC is now online too: https://www.electronicspoint.com/ac-electronics-f103.html
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