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Watching movies is a neat escape from the stressful lifestyle we live in. Watching movies in a wide screen and surround sound take you far away and into the movie scene you are watching. You watch it as if you were there in the movie scene. Of late, we can only experience this escape in a cinema. However, modern technology may be able to provide this same sight and sound experience right in your own living room. We will discuss the basic components of a home theater system in this article. Read on to understand how these basic components can deliver the best cinematic experience to a home theater system. Home theater experts state that the most important consideration in setting up a home theater system is the size of the room where you will set up the home theater system. The most important component of the home theater system, which is the television, is dependent on the size of the room. Although, the recommendation is 27 inches television set at a minimum is necessary for your home...

Generally for connecting an LCD display to an Arduino using 7 strands, it usually breaks the leg that has any projects that remain few ports to be used. But there is a way, using an IC 74LS164 (8-bit serial shift register), a resistor and a diode, but it's not just hardware, you have to use a library. This Arduino library for connection of 2-wire or 3-wire using HD44780 compatible LCD display via shiftregisters. This circuit is considered "deprecated", but it's worth testing. LCD Display on the Arduino Circuit 

Well, I got asked if I could put up some more pictures of the finished guitar (and specifically the neck joint), so here's what I've got (apologies for the dust). I thought I had a pic of the wiring too, but I can't seem to find it. Next time I change the strings I'll remove the scratchplate and take some. Enjoy. (EDIT: The wiring pics have now been added below)     And the wiring pics...

SMPS is the toughest section in Power Electronics. Tremendous knowledge is required for choosing active and passive parts for use in SMPS circuits. Special parts are often required specifically for use in SMPS. Many components that can be used for low frequency applications in Power Electronics may fail if used in SMPS circuits. When I started learning Power electronics in 2008, I placed emphasis on SMPS. Regarding SMPS, nothing was available here. I had to collect and gain everything piecemeal- knowledge, literature, active and passive parts, testing equipment etc. The main drawback was the lack of knowledge in this field. In my country, SMPS is not taught in detail in any engineering university. So, teachers are not readily available. Additionally, relevant books were also not available. So, my father chalked out a deliberate and detailed plan for me to learn SMPS: Detailed Plan for learning SMPS at home Step 1   – Collecting knowledge by collecting required books from abroa...

We live in a world that is constantly changing and evolving. We see it every time we buy a new car, a new television, or a new computer. We see it every other month when the iPod is putting out a new an improved model that offers more features, more disk space, and more everything, in a smaller package (well not since they added video but until then, the gadgets were getting smaller while the features were growing exponentially). The truth of the matter is that technology seems to be advancing at a rate that is nearly impossible to keep up with. That being said, you can quite literally drive yourself insane by trying to keep up with the pace of modern technology. What you need to do in order to maintain proper sanity is decide on a level of technology that you are comfortable and confident with and go with it until it is time (by either necessity or desire) to upgrade. You do not have to be the first to purchase the latest and greatest in software and gadgetry (this has become my mantr...

Google introduced Android 5.0 Lollipop , the new version of the operating system that implements the Material Design and a breakthrough. Great news comes to Android lovers with the arrival of the latest OS: Android 5.0 Lollipop . Although this was not the only news from Google on this day, no doubt, for fans of the operating system, the presentation of the version that comes after Android KitKat was the most important. These are the top ten news of Android 5.0 Lollipop 1 Material Design The new structure of Android has a flatter design, more colorful and multi-layered, visually respond to your touch screen and is the most drastic change from Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The interface we know Android KitKat reach the next level with a smooth transition animations between applications and elevation for each of the areas of the screen. This allows each section of the screen can offer higher quality and appearance with larger, thanks to the shadows that would be having each of the layers in...

Among the many smaller jobs that have to be done to this vintage Hofner Colorama II is to flatten the warped plastic pickguard and rear tremolo cover. Here’s how they both looked before starting: Pickguard: Rear tremolo cover: I decided to tackle the rear tremolo cover first, since it appeared to be a much simpler job and also easier to replace should things go horribly wrong. I really couldn’t find any information about this on the Internet, so I did what seemed logical in my head, which was to sandwich the plastic in-between two panes of tempered glass, clamp the whole lot together, and heat it with a very hot hairdryer. Here’s the setup: After 10 or 15 minutes of heating the area above AND BELOW the cover, I took the top pane of glass off to confirm that the plastic had become soft, then clamped everything back in place and left it to cool naturally. Since I wasn’t in a hurry, I left it for 24 hours, although I’m sure that wasn’t necessary at all. The tremolo cover came out complete...