I got an email from the chief editor of Nuts and Volts magazine the other day. He liked some of the circuits I had posted on my Discover Circuits website and suggested that I publish some of them in their magazine. Of course, they want a detailed circuit description of the project, a schematic, a detailed material list, photos of the packaged device and printed circuit board artwork. They pay only $100 per page with a maximum of $450. Why would anyone spend a week or two putting together such a circuit for only a few hundred bucks? No wonder the magazine seldom has anything interesting in print. Other than vanity, seeing your name in print, I don't see the point. Has anyone really gotten any consulting work from publishing such articles? In all the circuits I have published in EDN and Electronic Design, I have yet to get anything.
David A. Johnson, P.E. --- Consulting Engineer