Electronics Magazines

[Gert Baars]

Hello,

What are the most popular Electronics-hobby
magazines in the USA. I'm looking for Magazines
that publish designs of all sorts of Electronics
including Microcontrollers, analogue and digital
circuits and also RF designs.

Regards,

Gert Baars

 

[John Larkin]

Hello,

What are the most popular Electronics-hobby
magazines in the USA. I'm looking for Magazines
that publish designs of all sorts of Electronics
including Microcontrollers, analogue and digital
circuits and also RF designs.

Regards,

Gert Baars

Make up a plausible company name and get free subscriptions to
Electronic Design, EDN, Electronic Products, EE Times, Microwaves and
RF, RF Design, and Microwave Journal. Check lots of boxes on the form.

John

 

[Bob Stephens]

Check lots of boxes on the form.

Use *Some* care which boxes you check. Otherwise you'll find your mailbox
crammed with invitations to the hydraulic-optical-particle beam-robotics
and soils engineering symposium.


Bob

 

[[email protected]]

crammed with invitations to the hydraulic-optical-particle
beam-robotics

and soils engineering symposium.

Could be worse. I did a lot of hunting for waterproof motors in my
submarine project. It turns out that if you search the Internet for
"waterproof motor" something like 95% of the links you'll find are for
adult toys. Inquiring at the Asian part sources is a bad mistake. Now I
constantly get solicitations asking if I want to buy 1000 gross of the
new Pleasurevibe 3500, and related products (lubricants, dolls,
.......).

Worst part of it is that those motors are not even what I'm looking
for; I need big meaty motors (think snowplough hydraulic motor size).

 

[Charles Edmondson]

Hello,

What are the most popular Electronics-hobby
magazines in the USA. I'm looking for Magazines
that publish designs of all sorts of Electronics
including Microcontrollers, analogue and digital
circuits and also RF designs.

Regards,

Gert Baars

Circuit Cellar - www.circuitcellar.com
Best one that I have found.

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that [email protected] wrote (in

Could be worse. I did a lot of hunting for waterproof motors in my
submarine project. It turns out that if you search the Internet for
"waterproof motor" something like 95% of the links you'll find are for
adult toys. Inquiring at the Asian part sources is a bad mistake. Now I
constantly get solicitations asking if I want to buy 1000 gross of the
new Pleasurevibe 3500, and related products (lubricants, dolls,
......).

Worst part of it is that those motors are not even what I'm looking
for; I need big meaty motors (think snowplough hydraulic motor size).

Search for 'blue whale waterproof motor'?

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Make up a plausible company name and get free subscriptions to
Electronic Design, EDN, Electronic Products, EE Times, Microwaves and
RF, RF Design, and Microwave Journal. Check lots of boxes on the form.

John

The OP appears to be in the Netherlands. Most of the US trade rags
won't send the printed magazines outside the US/Canada for free (eg.
EDN wants $362.00 US/year!). The electronic versions (where available)
may be easier to get, but they are not as nice to leaf through and
don't fill up the recycling bin as nicely.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Ban]

The OP appears to be in the Netherlands. Most of the US trade rags
won't send the printed magazines outside the US/Canada for free (eg.
EDN wants $362.00 US/year!). The electronic versions (where available)
may be easier to get, but they are not as nice to leaf through and
don't fill up the recycling bin as nicely.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

So far I have never seen anybody paying anything for EDN, here we have now a
European edition, with the respective commercials. It is a nice mag for
working engineers, but not aided at the hobbyist.
When the OP wants something with simple PICs and uPs "Circuit Cellar" might
be appropriate. They have an electronic edition for 15$/year or so. There
are always interesting projects with circuit boards etc. available in kit
form.
One of the best mags is Elector/Elektuur. I think it comes from Holland.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

So far I have never seen anybody paying anything for EDN, here we have now a
European edition, with the respective commercials.

Yes, in that case, they'd just charge for the US edition. Presumably
for people gathering market information or libraries.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Joerg]

Hello Spehro,

The OP appears to be in the Netherlands. Most of the US trade rags
won't send the printed magazines outside the US/Canada for free (eg.
EDN wants $362.00 US/year!). ...

Not really, at least not when I lived there in the 90's. We got all
kinds of EE magazines from the US and they were all free. Some took a
while to get there because the free subscription was surface mail,
others got there just days after our US colleagues got them.

.... The electronic versions (where available)
may be easier to get, but they are not as nice to leaf through and
don't fill up the recycling bin as nicely.

We made it a rule not to subscribe too much but instead pass them around
in sequential order, via a distribution list sticker. 2nd rule was not
to keep a copy for more than two days and fall back to end-of-list
status when on a biz trip.

Regards, Joerg

 

[DaveM]

Hello,

What are the most popular Electronics-hobby
magazines in the USA. I'm looking for Magazines
that publish designs of all sorts of Electronics
including Microcontrollers, analogue and digital
circuits and also RF designs.

Regards,

Gert Baars

About the only hobbyist magazine left in the US today is Nuts & Volts
(www.nutsvolts.com). Subscriptions are $24.95/year direct from the
publisher, but they will usually have a booth in large hamfests where they
offer new subscriptions and renewals at $15.00/year..
Articles include basic and intermediate level theory and construction
projects, articles using uControllers, robotics, and misc topics. Also
included in every issue are Q&A from subscribers related to just about every
topic having to do with electronics and equipment.
--
Dave M
MasonDG44 at comcast dot net (Just subsitute the appropriate characters in
the address)

Never take a laxative and a sleeping pill at the same time!!

 

[Mark Zenier]

Circuit Cellar - www.circuitcellar.com
Best one that I have found.

Well the field isn't that big. I think the only other one
left is Nuts & Volts. You can get some of the UK ones at
the big chain bookstores' magazine racks.

Mark Zenier [email protected] Washington State resident

 

[Wouter van Ooijen]

One of the best mags is Elector/Elektuur. I think it comes from Holland.

Make that 'was' instead of 'is'. They have a bad reputation for using
unobtaineable of obsolete components.


Wouter van Ooijen

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Webshop for PICs and other electronics
http://www.voti.nl/hvu
Teacher electronics and informatics

 

[Wouter van Ooijen]

Circuit Cellar - www.circuitcellar.com

Well the field isn't that big. I think the only other one
left is Nuts & Volts.

+ EPE magazine

+ Elektuur/Elektor

Imho CC is by far the best, EPE and Elektuur are in the middle group,
N&V is realy low level.


Wouter van Ooijen

-- ------------------------------------
http://www.voti.nl
Webshop for PICs and other electronics
http://www.voti.nl/hvu
Teacher electronics and informatics

 

[Mark Zenier]

+ EPE magazine

+ Elektuur/Elektor

Imho CC is by far the best, EPE and Elektuur are in the middle group,
N&V is realy low level.

But the OP wanted US magazines. I've seen EPE at various large
bookstores (Tower, Barnes & Noble), and some of the really specialized
magazine newsstands will have whatever Wireless World is called now
at a jaw dropping price.

Mark Zenier [email protected] Washington State resident

 

[[email protected]]

But the OP wanted US magazines. I've seen EPE at various large
bookstores (Tower, Barnes & Noble), and some of the really specialized
magazine newsstands will have whatever Wireless World is called now
at a jaw dropping price.

Mark Zenier [email protected] Washington State resident

 

[[email protected]]

FYI, Elektor have just put their archive 2005-1998 online.
Wireless World is now called Electronics and Wireless World and seem to
have lost their way completely.

Rich (UK)

 

[Joel]

FYI, Elektor have just put their archive 2005-1998 online.
Wireless World is now called Electronics and Wireless World and seem to
have lost their way completely.

Rich (UK)

It always disturbed me that the US has fallen so behind in the quality
and quantity of electronics magazines. The Brits still have
respectable periodicals.

Electronics World has a lot of news, but still carries advanced-level
topics in theory, some projects, and circuit ideas.

Elektor is pretty good.

Everyday Practical Electronics is geared towards a younger crowd.


French-speaking persons can check out

Led (Loisirs Electronique D'aujourd'hui)
Nouvelle Ellectronique
Electronique et Loisirs Magazine
Electronique Pratique

All are chock-full of projects every issue.

 

[HomeLab]

It always disturbed me that the US has fallen so behind in the quality

and quantity of electronics magazines. The Brits still have
respectable periodicals.

Electronics World has a lot of news, but still carries advanced-level
topics in theory, some projects, and circuit ideas.

Elektor is pretty good.

Everyday Practical Electronics is geared towards a younger crowd.

Funny you'd say that, EWW has degraded to an old-f*^t magazine, the
news can be picked up free everywhere these days and is just a way to
fill pages, the theoretrical articles are up in the air and the
circuit ideas we get to see have a strong mid-1980s taste.
Younger crowd? EPE has been produced by basically the same people for
decades (see story on their website) and is lagging Elektor by about 5
years in circuit innovation. Until recently no designs in EPE using
technology like USB, GSM, GPS, AVR just to mention a few. Elektor are
way ahead. Pity the mag is so difficult to find these days but that
problem affects all mags I guess.

Rich (UK)