Downloads
Here are some programs you might find useful. Except where otherwise stated, software is written by Electronics 2000 and can be used free-of-charge. However if you find my software useful please consider making a small donation to support further development and upkeep of the site. Thanks.
Electronics Assistant |
EPE Magazine Index |
Evil Genius - Resistor Attack |
Stopwatch
Other Software |
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Electronics Assistant:
Electronics Assistant is a Windows program that performs electronics-related calculations. It includes a resistor colour code calculator, resistance, capacitance and power calculations and more. Details of calculations can be saved or printed. It provides all the functions found in the calculators section of this site and more in a stand-alone user friendly program.
Version 4.1 has now been released and includes the following new features:
- Updated user interface
- Extra calculators for inductance and frequency
- Calculation of nearest preferred resistor values with a choice of 5 series from E12 to E192
- Links to open Windows Calculator and up to 3 user-defined programs from Electronics Assistant
- Information panels can be toggled on or off to save space when not required
- Built-in automatic new version update check
- Various bug fixes and enhancements
Version 4.1 also fixes a number of errors found in version 4.0.
Electronics Assistant (EXE File, 460 kB)
License: Freeware, however if you find the program useful, or use it for commercial purposes a small donation would be appreciated to support further development. Thanks.
Click here to download and run the installation package. This will
install Electronics Assistant and create Start Menu shortcuts and a desktop icon if desired. IMPORTANT:
If you are using version 3.3 or earlier you must uninstall it before installing version 4.1. This can be done using 'Add/Remove Programs' from Windows Control
Panel. Unfortunately any program settings will need to be reset.
Users of version 4.0 can install over this version and settings will be preserved.
Electronics Assistant is built on Microsoft's .NET framework 2.0
and requires the framework to run. The installer will check if this is installed and download it automatically if required. Many programs now use the framework,
so you may well already have it. Alternatively it can be installed via Windows Update.
Electronics Assistant has been tested on Windows XP, Windows 98 and Windows Vista, and should run on other versions since Windows 98. Windows 98 users will need to change the path of Windows Calculator to 'C:\windows\calc.exe'. See the help file for details of how to do this. Click here to download the previous version of Electronics Assistant (V3.3) for use on older systems.
A user recently had problems running Electronics Assistant on Windows Vista. It turned out that the 'Arial' font was missing from the user's computer. This may be a one-off, but if you have problems ensure the 'Arial' font is installed. I am not currently running Vista to test this, so if you have this problem please let me know.
Version 3.3 has also been tested under WINE on Codeweavers Crossover Linux by Garfield Lucas, and on Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 (again under WINE) by Innes Nimmo. Innnes reports that version 4.1 is a no-go on Linux at the moment due to the requirement for the .NET framework and IE5. Thanks to Garfield and Innes for testing these, if anyone else is running Electronics Assistant on Linux or a Mac please let me know how you get on.
EPE Magazine Index:
A full index of all constructional projects published in Everyday Practical Electronics magazine is available to download. This is available as both a stand-alone application and an MS Access database. The stand-alone version includes the database file and can be used without having Access installed, and allows you to search for projects by description or date. It requires the .NET 2.0 framework; the installation program will check if you already have this installed and will download and install it if not.
License: Freeware, however if you find the program useful, or use it for commercial purposes a small donation would be appreciated to support further development. Thanks.
Click here to download the
stand-alone application including the database file (EXE, approx. 480kB).
Click here to download the
database without the viewer application (MS Access
Database approx. 200kB). Winzip or a similar utility will be required to extract the file.
Click here to download the index as a
spreadsheet (MS Excel XLS Spreadsheet approx. 180kB).
Existing users: If you have the 2006 version of the viewer
installed you can simply install the 2007 version over it. There is no need to remove the
previous version first.
The database has details of all constructional projects published
since 1992, but doesn't include details of other features and articles.
The index is updated at the end of each year, currently
holding details to the end of 2007, and is compiled
from the magazine indexes by Electronics
2000. For the official indexes (split by year), details of
ordering back issues and more visit EPE's web site,
www.epemag.co.uk. Please note that Electronics 2000 cannot supply back
issues of EPE, for back issues please contact the publishers. Older projects in the database may no
longer be available.
Evil Genius - Resistor Attack:
A game created by Dave Cutcher (author of Electronics for the Evil Genius) to teach resistor colour codes. To play move left and right using the arrow keys. 'Shoot' at the attacking resistor by pressing the number key corresponding to the resistor colour. For example to kill a yellow resistor move below it and press 4, for a red resistor press 2. Click here to download the game (ZIP file 507kB). Please note that this software is not written by Electronics 2000.
Stopwatch:
Stopwatch is based on public-domain code by Keith Vertanen. I adapted it for a specific application, and whilst not strictly electronics-related, I'll put it here in case anyone finds it useful.
Since it was written for my own use it doesn't have a help file, but is pretty simple. In basic mode when first opened it counts in the format H:MM:SS:MS; the start, stop and reset buttons being self-explanatory. Double-clicking the display expands the window as shown in the screenshot below. While the stopwatch is running click split/lap to add the current time to the list. Subsequent clicks will add further times to the list, and the time between this and the previous entry in the list will be calculated (shown after the delta symbol). Delete last and clear list remove the last entry or all entries from the list respectively. Double-click the display again to hide the split/lap function. Stopwatch always appears on top of other windows.
License: Freeware
Click here to download the installation package.
(EXE File, approx 330 kB). This will create a start menu group and optionally a desktop
icon. The program can be removed using Add/Remove Programs, or from the start menu link.
Stopwatch requires .NET framework 2.0 or higher, if necessary this will be downloaded
and installed automatically during the setup process.
Other Software:
Links to other electronics-related software can be found in the links section.
