In this issue

6 Emulating Legacy Interfaces Do it with Microcontrollers By Wolfgang Matthes

18 Building a Retro TV Remote PIC MCU-Based Design By Dev Gualtieri

24 Building a Robot Hand With Servos and Electromyography By Michael Haidar, Jason Hwang and Srikrishnaa Vadivel

30 Logger Device Tracks

Amp Hours (Part 1)

Measuring Home Electricity
By William Wachsmann

COMMUNITY

38 Commercial Drone Design Solutions Take Flight Chips, Boards and Platforms By Jeff Child

42 Design for Manufacturing: Does It Have to be so Difficult? An interview with Scott N. Miller and Thos Niles By Wisse Hettinga

SPECIAL FEATURE

44 Signal Chain Tech Pushes Bandwidth Barriers ADCs, FPGAs and DACs By Jeff Child

48 Embedded in Thin Slices Build an Embedded Systems Consulting Company (Part 6) Trade-Offs of Fixed-Price Contracts By Bob Japenga

52 The Consummate Engineer In the Loop on Positive Feedback New Value in an Old Concept By George Novacek

56 The Darker Side Antenna Performance Measurement Made Easy Covering the Basics By Robert Lacoste

62 From the Bench Gas Monitoring and Sensing (Part 1) Fun with Fragrant Analysis By Jeff Bachiochi

TECH THE FUTURE

79 The Future of PCB Design Racing to Keep Pace With PCB Complexities By Duane Benson

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Circuit Cellar magazine features engineering tutorials, detailed microcontroller-based projects, and embedded systems industry news for professional electrical engineers, EE/ECE academics, and highly skilled electronics enthusiasts. Since 1988, Circuit Cellar has featured projects and tutorials from the world's top engineers on subjects such as embedded development (e.g., prototyping and programming), signal processing (e.g., DSP chips and signal conditioning), programmable logic (e.g., FPGA projects), sensor systems (e.g., smart sensors and MEMS), 'Net-connected devices (e.g., IoT projects and protocol stacks), robotics (e.g., robotic systems and proximity sensing), and much more. Circuit Cellar is the ultimate resource for all of your electrical engineering-related needs.