Electronics Magazines

beam-robotics

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).

Circuit Cellar -

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

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

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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

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

I read in sci.electronics.design that snipped-for-privacy@larwe.com wrote (in ) about 'Electronics Magazines', on Fri, 28 Jan 2005:

Search for 'blue whale waterproof motor'?

About the only hobbyist magazine left in the US today is Nuts & Volts

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.

Hello Spehro,

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.

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

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 snipped-for-privacy@eskimo.com Washington State resident

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

Wouter van Ooijen

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• 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

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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 snipped-for-privacy@eskimo.com Washington State resident

I get spammed regularly by one called "Silicon Chip".

I've never seen a printed issue of the magazine.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Not realy, he wanted 'magazine popular in the US'.

But are there realy no others left in this field? I recall there used to be some australian magazines that were pretty good.

Wouter van Ooijen

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group,

specialized

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.