This floral centerpiece is the perfect way to give your spring tablescape a fresh new look. Here's how to DIY it using your favorite spring flowers. Spring is the perfect time to host a party.

Understanding the Context

The weather is not too hot or too cold, people are ready to get out of the house after winter, and flowers are blooming, creating a gorgeous setting and an ... What sources or techniques/methods do you know of for large inexpensive project boxes (aka enclosures) in the USA? The components are inexpensive, consisting of a P-MOSFET (for use in the positive rail) with a dual PNP transistor and two resistors. Q1 and Q2 form a current mirror circuit that act as a differential amplifier which responds to the voltage drop across the MOSFET.

Key Insights

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Final Thoughts

Using the circuit presented here, you can construct a very inexpensive AGC amplifier with the following features: a dynamic range greater than 50 dB; negligible distortion to the output waveform; fast attack and slow decay; an adjustable output level from 0 to 1.2 V p-p; operation from a single 5-V supply; less than 1-mA current drain; and low cost (uses one half of a dual 8-pin op-amp package ... Here's the first of two simple PWM control circuit using inexpensive readily-available components. The circuit component values shown are for a 12V supply but could be altered for other supply voltages less than 15V. Most of the work is done by...