04-12-2012, 10:38 AM
I feel you might be being a bit harsh 
Elektor is not for everyone for sure - it does a bit of the retro stuff (nixies and valves etc.) but its geared towards contemporary electronics. As it happens, they've been running an introduction to electronics theory course for some months, and are currently running an FPGA primer, complete with its own dev board, which I'm finding very interesting as my VHDL is rusty. They've also had extensive coverage of SDR and other radio technologies.
I find EPE tedious and repetitive, and the others pretty worthless with the exception of Circuit Cellar. Having said that, I do a lot of uP stuff, mainly with AVRs, so I'm completely happy with hybrid digital/analogue stuff. They do full analogue too, e.g. a recent series of articles by Doug Self on a new ultra-high specification HiFi pre-amp. Its disingenuous to suggest its all uP-based - it certainly isn't, but the hard facts are that hybrid is the way of the world now, and has been for a good while, so that's what they do. Look upon it as an opportunity to learn C or C++ (or BASIC or whatever) and play with a bit of digital micro-electronics... it's actually quite fun!
Of the current crop (those that are left, anyway), for me, apart from the trade rags, Elektor is the most informative followed by Circuit Cellar.
Elektor is not for everyone for sure - it does a bit of the retro stuff (nixies and valves etc.) but its geared towards contemporary electronics. As it happens, they've been running an introduction to electronics theory course for some months, and are currently running an FPGA primer, complete with its own dev board, which I'm finding very interesting as my VHDL is rusty. They've also had extensive coverage of SDR and other radio technologies.
I find EPE tedious and repetitive, and the others pretty worthless with the exception of Circuit Cellar. Having said that, I do a lot of uP stuff, mainly with AVRs, so I'm completely happy with hybrid digital/analogue stuff. They do full analogue too, e.g. a recent series of articles by Doug Self on a new ultra-high specification HiFi pre-amp. Its disingenuous to suggest its all uP-based - it certainly isn't, but the hard facts are that hybrid is the way of the world now, and has been for a good while, so that's what they do. Look upon it as an opportunity to learn C or C++ (or BASIC or whatever) and play with a bit of digital micro-electronics... it's actually quite fun!
Of the current crop (those that are left, anyway), for me, apart from the trade rags, Elektor is the most informative followed by Circuit Cellar.
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