19-12-2013, 11:53 AM
Elektor is excellent if you don't want to make yet another windscreen wiper delay unit or something made on Veroboard.
My main issue (excuse pun) with EPE is that they simply haven't moved with the times. Not on design. Not on content.
Whilst there is a lot in Elektor that I'm not directly interested in, there's a lot of stuff in there that piques my curiosity and I file it away in some dark recess of my mind for rainy days... for those "AHA!" moments...
Their "3xx" series books are excellent design references (I have a complete set from the start at 301 to 311) - their analogue design quality is so much better than EPE that there is no comparison.
Having said that, I've written for EPE in the dim and distant past, but a few years ago I wrote a letter about the extremely poor quality of an article they published about a pic-based frequency analyser based on fast Fourier transforms -(FFTs) - it was obvious that the author hadn't a clue about the maths (or even the basics) and as a result the project was misleading and inaccurate.
They published an abbreviated version of my letter (March 2002) with the editor admitting that they couldn't understand the issues and trying to gloss over the errors.
That was the last time I bothered with them. (just noticed that's not true - I wrote another letter to them in 2003).
My main issue (excuse pun) with EPE is that they simply haven't moved with the times. Not on design. Not on content.
Whilst there is a lot in Elektor that I'm not directly interested in, there's a lot of stuff in there that piques my curiosity and I file it away in some dark recess of my mind for rainy days... for those "AHA!" moments...
Their "3xx" series books are excellent design references (I have a complete set from the start at 301 to 311) - their analogue design quality is so much better than EPE that there is no comparison.
Having said that, I've written for EPE in the dim and distant past, but a few years ago I wrote a letter about the extremely poor quality of an article they published about a pic-based frequency analyser based on fast Fourier transforms -(FFTs) - it was obvious that the author hadn't a clue about the maths (or even the basics) and as a result the project was misleading and inaccurate.
They published an abbreviated version of my letter (March 2002) with the editor admitting that they couldn't understand the issues and trying to gloss over the errors.
That was the last time I bothered with them. (just noticed that's not true - I wrote another letter to them in 2003).
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