DESIGN IDEAS
- CMOS IC Makes Low-Cost Digital Potentiometer

- Power Management In The ST62


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Automatic Power-Off Circuit Saves Battery

- Simple PC Smart Card Reader Enhancement

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Digital Position Encoder Does Away With ADC

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Single-Supply RS-232 Transmission Without Level-Translator ICs

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µC Controls Charge Pump As Background Task

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Clock Multiplier Circumvents PLL

- Drive Smart Cards With A Low-Cost MCU's UART 

- Wireless “Battery” Energizes Low-Power Devices

- Harvest Energy Using A Piezoelectric Buzzer

- Drive A Single-Coil Latching Relay Without An H-Bridge Circuit

DESIGN CONTESTS
- The Mobile Phonebook

- The CheckPoint Charlie

- The Lord Of The Keys

- MoneyPenny

- Enigma

- Bye Bye Standby


- Flower Power

ARTICLES
- Mobile Phone Book: M16C/62P Based Data Backup System

- Internet Password Manager

- RFID Payment Terminal 

- Tecnología NFC Para Aplicaciones De Proximidad Seguras

- The Green Standby

- Flower Power

CONTACT
- E-mail

 

FLOWER POWER

Article published in the Nuts And Volts Magazine, Vol. 31 No. 9, September 2010
by Carlos Cossio

http://nutsvolts.texterity.com/nutsvolts/201009?sub_id=ZuXXPXKPjyNE#pg36

You too can power a device from a set of potted plants! However, in this case, the cells of the battery draw their energy directly from the plants, rather than from an electrochemical process.



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