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Contents Vol.14, No.12; December 2001 www.siliconchip.com.au FEATURES 6 Is There A Hybrid Car In Your Future? Toyota’s Prius and Honda’s Insight hybrid petrol/electric cars are here now. We drove the Prius and came away impressed – by Ross Tester 14 Windows XP: What’s In It For You? Say goodbye to Win98/Me system crashes. Microsoft has released a unified operating system that’s based on the Windows NT/2000 core and includes full multimedia support – by Greg Swain Is There A Hybrid Car In Your Future? – Page 6. PROJECTS TO BUILD 26 Build A PC Infrared Transceiver Add infrared capability to your PC for peanuts – by Peter Smith 36 Telephone Call Logger It logs all outgoing calls and can download the data via your PC’s serial port to an Excel spreadsheet – by Frank Crivelli & Peter Crowcroft 54 100W RMS/Channel Stereo Amplifier, Pt.2 Building the preamplifier, RCA input and power amplifier modules, plus all the performance details – by Greg Swain & Leo Simpson Build A PC Infrared Transceiver – Page 26. 66 Pardy Lights: An Intriguing Colour Display OK, so they’re really “party” lights. They’re easy to build and produce random colour patterns to the bass beat from your music – by Ross Tester 78 PIC Fun And Games Want to get into microcontrollers? Here’s an easy, low-cost way – by Ross Tester SPECIAL COLUMNS 32 Serviceman’s Log A Panasonic kind of month – by the TV Serviceman Building The 100W/Ch Stereo Amplifier – Page 54. 83 Vintage Radio Test instruments for vintage radio restoration, Pt.2 – by Rodney Champness DEPARTMENTS 2 3 30 53 74 Publisher’s Letter Mailbag Circuit Notebook Subscriptions Form Products Showcase www.siliconchip.com.au 90 93 94 96 Ask Silicon Chip Notes & Errata Market Centre Advertising Index PIC Fun And Games: Learning About Microcontrollers – Page 78. December 2001  1