9 Jul
2007
9 Jul
'07
2:51 p.m.
I kinda like
Elektor. You can identify an Elektor project from half a
mile away - the PCB designs have their own unique style. Lots of
45-degree angles, plenty of flood-fills (why, to save on etchant of
course) and filleting where pads meet tracks (strengthens the tracks a
little).
I stopped reading it around 1992 - it too much follwoed the general
trend of filling pages with standard microcontroller crap (often recycled industry application notes), that required
some special circuit
only available at their or associated stores. Having seen the nth PIC
application that basically blinks a LED - what my generation built with
2 transistors, 2 capacitors, 4 resistors - is lame.
You're making me feel very old. When I was a kid, I used to make a neon
bulb blink using one resistor and one capacitor.
-tony