Hi all

What is the best magazine to get in to circuits?

Searching the web I have found these:

• Elector - https://www.elektormagazine.com/
• Nuts and Volts - https://www.nutsvolts.com/
• Circuit Cellar https://circuitcellar.com/
• Make - https://makezine.com/
• IEEE Spectrum - https://spectrum.ieee.org/

Who would you recomend for a person that is just getting started (bought a Arduino starterkit, "Electronic Devices - Conventional Current Version" book and a multimeter)? And which do you prefer and why?

Thanks!

 

AAC

Welcome to AAC!

 

Thanks! Yeah, its already bookmarked at the top! However, I have achieved great results and regular study sessions results by having a magazine at the bathroom.

 

Thanks! Yeah, its already bookmarked at the top! However, I have achieved great results and regular study sessions results by having a magazine at the bathroom.

Same here. I take my AAC on an iPad with me when I have to go.

 

Through the years I have read Elektor, Practical Wireless, Practical Electronics, Everyday Electronics, Wireless World, Nuts and Volts, Circuit Cellar, and no doubt some others I have forgotten. Now, since the internet (and AAC) knows everything, I read no magazines except articles that my mate Mr Google finds.

 

Here are a few online resources for circuits...
https://electronicsdotnet.blogspot.com/
http://www.circuit-finder.com/
http://www.circuitdiagramworld.com/
https://myelectronis-lab.blogspot.com/
http://educypedia.karadimov.info/electronics/electronicaopening.htm
http://www.ersbiomedical.com/Forrest-Mims-Series_ep_126.html
http://www.cappels.org/dproj/Home.htm

 

What is the best magazine to get in to circuits? Who would you recomend for a person that is just getting started (bought a Arduino starterkit, "Electronic Devices - Conventional Current Version" book and a multimeter)?

The "best" magazine (or book, or video, or online discussion board, or...) is the one you like the most, the one that "speaks to you" the best.

It depends a lot on what you mean by "get in to circuits." What do you want to do? What area of electronics interests you the most? What level of expertise are you aiming to achieve? These are things to think about.

 

Hello,

You could also have a look at my library thread:
Library of old books, magazines and textbooks

Bertus

 

Best is subjective, but I like Ideas for Design from Design Electronics.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/learning-resources/ideas-design

I've learned some tricks from some of the articles.

 

Elektor, Practical Everyday Electronics (EPE).

 

one that "speaks to you" the best.

beautifully said...

 

I too rarely buy a magazine now. There is so much on line. For many years I stuck with Circuit Cellar, switching over to the electronic version, but even then, mostly I would just glance through it and never come back to it. When my subscription ended, I did no renew it.
This is sad for the magazine producers but, at lease here in Australia, the mags have become quite expensive. Now I occasionally buy one as I find something of interest.
Another good learning site is... http://www.learnabout-electronics.org/

For a good background of older circuits, quite worthwhile, some mags have been archived.
For example, here is Electronics Australia, Jan 1977... https://archive.org/details/EA1977
Have a look and see. This is pre Arduino, of course, but this edition does have the video terminal I used for my first computer, a Signetics 2650 system. All the info to build that came from Electronics Australia.

 

wow... just saw a tween of my mom on page 14.

 

Hello,

At the internet archive there are more magazine collections:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=electronics magazine&and[]=mediatype:"collection"

One of the more modern magazines is the magazine from EDN:
https://archive.org/details/ednmagazine

Bertus

 

Same here. I take my AAC on an iPad with me when I have to go.

Haha, yeah! Call me an old fashion, but I do need some physical paper on the bathroom.

Through the years I have read Elektor, Practical Wireless, Practical Electronics, Everyday Electronics, Wireless World, Nuts and Volts, Circuit Cellar, and no doubt some others I have forgotten. Now, since the internet (and AAC) knows everything, I read no magazines except articles that my mate Mr Google finds.

Thanks! I definitely do most of my reading online, however I like physical magazines too. One thing is that I spend a lot of time in front of screens (maybe hardware is good for me then), but also; with all of these suggestion algorithms and how easy it is to scroll past what dosent bomb you with dopamine right away, I feel I read more stuff I wouldn't otherwise with magazines.

Here are a few online resources for circuits...
https://electronicsdotnet.blogspot.com/
http://www.circuit-finder.com/
http://www.circuitdiagramworld.com/
https://myelectronis-lab.blogspot.com/
http://educypedia.karadimov.info/electronics/electronicaopening.htm
http://www.ersbiomedical.com/Forrest-Mims-Series_ep_126.html
http://www.cappels.org/dproj/Home.htm

Thank you! Lots of good resources!

The "best" magazine (or book, or video, or online discussion board, or...) is the one you like the most, the one that "speaks to you" the best.

It depends a lot on what you mean by "get in to circuits." What do you want to do? What area of electronics interests you the most? What level of expertise are you aiming to achieve? These are things to think about.

As said under here, beautiful. My initiate feeling says Elector. Hmm, so I am the first employee in a startup that are developing a tech for adding and subtracting conductive materials and the whole company is all about circuits (lol). We use Arduino, voltage boosters, PCBs for controlling stuff, etc. So first of all I want to understand more of what we do! But I am also super fascinated and think this could be my hobby. Right now I am a bit in to all stuff tech, from Python to virtual machines & Qubes OS, not really specialist in anything.

I love physical things, and some of my best memories as a kid was stealing boards from the dumbster of a local IT companies and pretending they where space bases or industrial sites. I also did tin soldiers, kida like soldering. Personally I am best at knowing what is what, the names of parts, how they work and can be used.

The two founders are very good at this, so I don't expect to reach their level. But I would like to understand everything everyone is talking about, and build some cool devices. Also, I have a dream of building a board to put in a server, but I don't know for what yet (I have played with the idea of open source bandwidth, and creating an alternative "internet" run by people with powerful machines).

Hello,

You could also have a look at my library thread:
Library of old books, magazines and textbooks

Bertus

Thanks!!

Best is subjective, but I like Ideas for Design from Design Electronics.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/learning-resources/ideas-design

I've learned some tricks from some of the articles.

Thanks! Doing projects is what I need to do.

Elektor, Practical Everyday Electronics (EPE).

Thanks!

beautifully said...

Agree!

I too rarely buy a magazine now. There is so much on line. For many years I stuck with Circuit Cellar, switching over to the electronic version, but even then, mostly I would just glance through it and never come back to it. When my subscription ended, I did no renew it.
This is sad for the magazine producers but, at lease here in Australia, the mags have become quite expensive. Now I occasionally buy one as I find something of interest.
Another good learning site is... http://www.learnabout-electronics.org/

For a good background of older circuits, quite worthwhile, some mags have been archived.
For example, here is Electronics Australia, Jan 1977... https://archive.org/details/EA1977
Have a look and see. This is pre Arduino, of course, but this edition does have the video terminal I used for my first computer, a Signetics 2650 system. All the info to build that came from Electronics Australia.

Thanks! Yeah, sad for the magazines. However, I subscribe to a couple, as I have cut out newspapers (except local one). Might give a bit more of a fundamental understanding understanding older circuits?

wow... just saw a tween of my mom on page 14.

I don't know what this means!

Hello,

At the internet archive there are more magazine collections:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=electronics magazine&and[]=mediatype:"collection"

One of the more modern magazines is the magazine from EDN:
https://archive.org/details/ednmagazine

Bertus

Thanks!!