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Title: Current Printed Mags?
Post by: DouglAss on April 25, 2004, 03:41:21 PM
I wound up dropping my subscriptions a few years ago, mainly because there seemed to be focus on stuff I wasn't interested in.

I've come to the conclusion that they are good reads anyway (something's got to live on the toilet-tank  :lol: , but with all the musical chairs with the names and publishers, I don't know what's out there anymore.
I'm not super interested in the PIC/STAMP stuff or robotics -- but I probably should learn a little more about that area, and I'm not just interested in audio.  


So, what's good these days?
Title: Current Printed Mags?
Post by: toneman on April 25, 2004, 08:13:14 PM
Nuts&Volts, a mag that used 2 B free,
has merged with PopTronics, which formerly merged with
Radio Electonics when formerly called Popular Electronics.

N&V has BasicStamp & PIC articles AWA lots of audio and some
digital as well.

I don't read(make that buy)  it much since it got a price tag.
I'll thumb thru it at the newstand.

There's also an English Mag(can't remember)......
Oh! i think it's called "Everyday Practical  Electronics"  EPE
i check it out whenever i visit Tower Books.

AFN
tone
Title: Current Printed Mags?
Post by: Paul Perry (Frostwave) on April 25, 2004, 09:58:26 PM
www.siliconchip.com.au/

has more "hobby level" analog design in it than most. Check out their website.
Title: Current Printed Mags?
Post by: Mark Hammer on April 26, 2004, 09:22:48 AM
Nuts and Volts is probably the only North American mag of any consequence to folks here, although I occasionally find reason to pick up Audio Express for a construction article.  

Elektor is still going strong in many different languages, though I find a lot of their projects more complex than I want, or not particularly relevant, or else the PCB layouts so tightly spec'd that the only way you could make them would be is if you have a setup for making double-sided photosensitive boards.  Maplin, in England, has a mag with the occasional decent article.  Electroniques Pratiques can have something useful in it from time to time.
Title: Current Printed Mags?
Post by: DouglAss on April 26, 2004, 02:16:50 PM
Thanks guys!

all the mergers and name changes drove me nuts
What ever happened to "electronics now" or was that just a supplement to one of the other mags?