Award-winning designer Martin Frey created a device based on the classic arcade game.

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Two more inspirations for designing your own circuits - taken from our
Design Ideas section.
They involve a hot-swap serial-interface circuit allows two computers to monitor all the traffic on an RS-232 port and a laser-diode-clamp circuit that protects against overvoltages.
Hot-swap circuit allows two computers to monitor an RS-232 channel,
courtesy of Jeff Patterson, All Weather Inc, Sacramento, CA; Edited by Charles H Small and Fran GranvilleImproved laser-diode-clamp circuit protects against overvoltages,
courtesy of James Zannis, Baulne-en-Brie, France; Edited by Charles H Small and Fran Granville
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It's still in beta - the Web equivalent of caveat emptor - but check out the emerging new
Circuits section on the site. (Click to expand the image on the left)
It brings together the existing
Circuit Design Ideas section with an alternative, visually-based view on Circuit designs and diagrams, dubbed
Circuit Search - bookmark
www.electronicsweekly.com/circuitsearch We hope to build on the latter, both in terms of the number of circuits presented but also in the means of navigating the circuit diagrams themselves.
And in the not-too-distant future there will also be a Circuits-based competition - stay tuned!
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