new X-chapters

Will that make it the third edition?

Cherrs

The world will remain analog. Past a certain clock rate all digital becomes analog again but the supply of analog engineers is drying up. Which is why I am yanked back out of retirement a lot. The next urgent problem is supposed to arrive Monday before 10am. Maybe I get a chance to walk the dog before it's here.

AoE is at rev 3. I think this will be the 2nd edition of the X-chapters.

AoE has sold over a million copies so far. The current price is around $85.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Yes.

A million copies? That's immense for such a deeply technical and arcane book. Is there a breakdown available? Worldwide?

Joe

I think Amazon has the Kindle version for ~3£

ROFL

Roll On the Floor Laughing

Of course, but I didn't know that people still used that old expression.

What I wonder is what he found amusing.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Yeah. Kids don't read books any more.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

You will probably never find out. People wit a better grasp of electronics than yours will have less difficulty.

A book that you can read on a Kindle isn't a book any more? I've got the second edition of the Williams and Taylor "Electronic Filter Handbook Design Handbook" on my bookshelf and the the third edition on my Kindle which I used when travelling. Both work exactly the same way.

Yeah. It's best to not ask.

Joe

I want my fair share of this global warming!

Shoveling lots of snow replaces the gym :-)

In my case it's splitting firewood so my gym visit are sparse now.

Probably not counting all the counterfeit copies in countries where the cost of the book would amount to a month's wages.

And worth every penny. Thousands of dollars in tuition at some university won't even come close to what those $85 can do.

Back when I grew up there was no AoE. My main teaching material was the ARRL Handbook. For anyone wanting to design RF stuff that is a must-read.

Popular Electronics mag was good too.

I had access to the Radiation Lab Series of books from the WWII radar project at MIT. That was great.

I have the full set at home now.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

We just got a new bench for our outdoor deck. This morning we were out here in our panties getting our Vitamin D.

The blue jays and crows harass us, wanting us to feed them Cheetos.

One of my guys did a JLC proto board. It has edge-launch SMAs. The center pin is fat on the cheap connectors, so we have a big pad for soldering.

But that makes a capacitive glitch unless you cut away all the interior PCB planes. He didn't.

I dremeled from the bottom all the way up to remove the layer 3 and 2 copper pours. Tricky. I was about 3 mils from punching through to the other side.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

My fave was Wireless World.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Am 25.02.26 um 01:12 schrieb john larkin:

Same here.

Solder-friendly pads: <

Z-friendly pads: <

result is slightly overcompensated: <

the setup: <

cheers, Gerhard

Winfield did licence a special edition sold only in places like India. The text is the same, but the book is printed on onionskin paper and glue-bound. I don't know what they cost in India, but it's far less than USD 85. Anyway, those 8 languages are probably included in the special edition audience.

Yep.

Joe