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I've moved jobs a year or so ago and working from home. I've lost touch of
the best magazines for electronic design engineers. Can someone recommend a
few?

Many thanks in advance.
 
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:56:25 +0100, "Fred" <Fred@nospam.com> wrote:

I've moved jobs a year or so ago and working from home. I've lost touch of
the best magazines for electronic design engineers. Can someone recommend a
few?

Many thanks in advance.
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Electronics World is my particular favourite. Well worth a look at.

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"Paul Burridge" <pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote in message
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Electronics World is my particular favourite. Well worth a look at.

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Many thanks.

This is a subscription magazine and whilst it is very good I was actually
thinking of the freebie ones I used to get.
 
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Electronics World is my particular favourite. Well worth a look at.

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Many thanks.

This is a subscription magazine and whilst it is very good I was actually
thinking of the freebie ones I used to get.
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All the free ones are available via the Web: Electronics Weekly, EDN, EE
Times, etc.

Leon
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In comp.arch.embedded Fred <Fred@nospam.com> wrote:
I've moved jobs a year or so ago and working from home. I've lost touch of
the best magazines for electronic design engineers. Can someone recommend a
few?

Many thanks in advance.
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I'm an embedded software guy, so what works for me might not work for
you. I am also not sure where you're posting from, which can have some
influence. However:

I like Electronic Design Europe. I used to much prefer the US edition, but
they decided to stop doing subs for that in the UK so we now get a
rather thinner magazine :(

I find IEE Review and IEEE Spectrum are good overviews of what's going
on round the industry generally, although Spectrum's getting a bit
political/ecological tan teechnological these days.

pete
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Leon Heller wrote:
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"Paul Burridge" <pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote in message
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Electronics World is my particular favourite. Well worth a look at.

--

This is a subscription magazine and whilst it is very good I was actually
thinking of the freebie ones I used to get.


All the free ones are available via the Web: Electronics Weekly, EDN, EE
Times, etc.
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In any case, EW has gone seriously downhill in the last few years, and
is now filled with readers' letters, circuit "ideas" and pseudoscience.
I cancelled my order with the newsagent a few months ago.

Paul Burke
 
Paul Burke wrote:
Leon Heller wrote:
"Fred" <Fred@nospam.com> wrote in message
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"Paul Burridge" <pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote in message
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Electronics World is my particular favourite. Well worth a look at.

--

This is a subscription magazine and whilst it is very good I was
actually thinking of the freebie ones I used to get.


All the free ones are available via the Web: Electronics Weekly,
EDN, EE Times, etc.


In any case, EW has gone seriously downhill in the last few years, and
is now filled with readers' letters, circuit "ideas" and
pseudoscience. I cancelled my order with the newsagent a few months
ago.
Paul Burke
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Indeed even I had 4 letters published and a circuit (aug 2004) over the
last year or so. "I wouldn't belong to a club that allowed me as a
member:)

EW is really off the deep end now. It puts complete and utter nonsense
as main feature articles. i.e. the one about electro-gravity. It was so
out to lunch that is was pointless complaining.

Kevin Aylward
salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk
http://www.anasoft.co.uk
SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode
Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture,
Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.
 
Re Which Electronics Magazine in UK?
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I used to like Elektor Electronics, but the non release of prpohram code is
annoying.
http://www.elektor-electronics.co.uk/

I have a subscription to circuilt cellar in the US.
http://www.circuitcellar.com/

It is excellent, has nice projects and keeps upto date on new releases.

In addition, even including overseas poistage costs, it still works oout at
Ł30 for the year, and ideal christmas 'Gift'.

Vincent
 
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:34:29 +0100, the renowned Paul Burke
<paul@scazon.com> wrote:

Leon Heller wrote:
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"Paul Burridge" <pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote in message
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Electronics World is my particular favourite. Well worth a look at.

--

This is a subscription magazine and whilst it is very good I was actually
thinking of the freebie ones I used to get.


All the free ones are available via the Web: Electronics Weekly, EDN, EE
Times, etc.


In any case, EW has gone seriously downhill in the last few years, and
is now filled with readers' letters, circuit "ideas" and pseudoscience.
I cancelled my order with the newsagent a few months ago.

Paul Burke
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It keeps getting skinnier too. It's available at the newstands here,
but at C$11 plus tax per issue, I tend to just leaf through it. Since
they stopped people from going into the bookstore coffee shop with
unpaid for magazines, I read a lot less of it.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:07:40 +0100, Paul Burridge
<pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote:

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:56:25 +0100, "Fred" <Fred@nospam.com> wrote:

I've moved jobs a year or so ago and working from home. I've lost touch of
the best magazines for electronic design engineers. Can someone recommend a
few?

Many thanks in advance.

Electronics World is my particular favourite. Well worth a look at.
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Is it still around ?

I cancelled my subscription about the time they changed the name from
Wireless World to Electronics World :)

Paul
 
Paul Keinanen wrote:

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:07:40 +0100, Paul Burridge
pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote:


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:56:25 +0100, "Fred" <Fred@nospam.com> wrote:


I've moved jobs a year or so ago and working from home. I've lost touch of
the best magazines for electronic design engineers. Can someone recommend a
few?

Many thanks in advance.

Electronics World is my particular favourite. Well worth a look at.


Is it still around ?

I cancelled my subscription about the time they changed the name from
Wireless World to Electronics World :)
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Just at the time when the new radio technologies for data transmissions between
devices was being called 'wireless'.

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In message <2qqcqpF12r5q3U1@uni-berlin.de>, Paul Burke <paul@scazon.com>
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Leon Heller wrote:
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"Paul Burridge" <pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote in message
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Electronics World is my particular favourite. Well worth a look at.
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Just don't try building projects from their circuit diagrams if you
expect them to work as described... Maybe in these days of CAD and net
lists it has improved in that respect at least. But it is pretty much
like a comic now.

This is a subscription magazine and whilst it is very good I was actually
thinking of the freebie ones I used to get.
All the free ones are available via the Web: Electronics Weekly,
EDN, EE Times, etc.


In any case, EW has gone seriously downhill in the last few years, and
is now filled with readers' letters, circuit "ideas" and pseudoscience.
I cancelled my order with the newsagent a few months ago.
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Be fair. Even in the 70's it's predecessor WW required the editor to not
believe in relativity and published plenty of lunatic fringe electronic
engineers against Einstein articles. To that extent little has changed
they have just gone even further into wacky pseudo science. Unclear to
me how that it helps to sell the magazine or maintain its once fine
reputation.

Aimed mainly at hobby electronics folk EPE from Wimborne press sometimes
has interesting articles in it, worth browsing in the newsagent to see
if it is a good one or not. Their article on the rebuilding of the
Turing Bombe and Colossus for the history of computing was excellent.

Elector sometimes has interesting articles too. YMMV

Regards,
--
Martin Brown
 
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In any case, EW has gone seriously downhill in the last few years, and
is now filled with readers' letters, circuit "ideas" and pseudoscience.
I cancelled my order with the newsagent a few months ago.

Paul Burke
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You're missing out!.
I found this months issue worth it, for the articles by Cyril Bateman and
Ian Hickman.
I'd also think that most magazines couldn't survive without their circuit
ideas sections. (I think EDN even admit it somewhere on their website.)
But, I agree many of the "ideas" that turn up are really grade #1, naff).

regards
john
 
I read in sci.electronics.design that Martin Brown <|||newspam|||@nezumi
..demon.co.uk> wrote (in <OPt0peDFOUSBFwuT@nospam.demon.co.uk>) about 'UK
Electronics publication', on Thu, 16 Sep 2004:

Aimed mainly at hobby electronics folk EPE from Wimborne press sometimes
has interesting articles in it, worth browsing in the newsagent to see
if it is a good one or not.
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But it's 90% PIC still, isn't it?
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"John Woodgate" <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message
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I read in sci.electronics.design that Martin Brown <|||newspam|||@nezumi
.demon.co.uk> wrote (in <OPt0peDFOUSBFwuT@nospam.demon.co.uk>) about 'UK
Electronics publication', on Thu, 16 Sep 2004:

Aimed mainly at hobby electronics folk EPE from Wimborne press sometimes
has interesting articles in it, worth browsing in the newsagent to see
if it is a good one or not.

But it's 90% PIC still, isn't it?
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Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
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Occasionally EPE does seem to have some reasonable articles
and projects, but yes it is very PIC-centric. Some of the
projects are a bit too basic ( PIC powered egg timer et al ).
Elektor Electronics has better projects and a better spread
of micros.

Colin
 
In message <IM5XlJI4McSBFwu3@jmwa.demon.co.uk>, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> writes
I read in sci.electronics.design that Martin Brown <|||newspam|||@nezumi
.demon.co.uk> wrote (in <OPt0peDFOUSBFwuT@nospam.demon.co.uk>) about 'UK
Electronics publication', on Thu, 16 Sep 2004:

Aimed mainly at hobby electronics folk EPE from Wimborne press sometimes
has interesting articles in it, worth browsing in the newsagent to see
if it is a good one or not.

But it's 90% PIC still, isn't it?
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More like 50%. But despite their popular home constructor target
audience they still have occasional excellent review and constructional
articles - the last one that stands out for me was a nice design for a
very sensitive data logging seismograph. I expect it used a PIC
somewhere.

Regards,
--
Martin Brown
 
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