Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01225
To: Bumper314@aol.com
From: John Mitchell johnm@magnet.com
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:25:19 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: magazines
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 Bumper314@aol.com wrote:
> Can someone tell me which is the better magazine, Popular Electronics or
> Electronics Now, and does anyone remember what issue had the Photovore rip
> off. Thanks
From http://www.gernsback.com/noframe/Ghomeindex_nofr.html
:
"Electronics Now is targeted at the electronics professionals who are at
the core of the electronics industry. On the job, the Electronics Now
reader is an electronics engineer or technician. At home this same person
is an active electronics hobbyist."
= simple circuits.
"Popular Electronics is designed to keep the electronics hobbyist at the
cutting edge of the latest electronics technologies. When the reader wants
to know what is happening in digital broadcast satellite systems,"
= home audio, video, "neat-o" type consumer stuff.
I let my sub to Electronics Now lapse because 1) not very interesting, 2)
too simple, not a range of projects, 3) untrustworthy. I'd see *many*
people complain about circuit errors, missing text, missing code. If I'm
a beginner, who they're targeting towards, how am I going to debug a
circuit with errors? If I'm not a beginner, I'll be reading something
else, and I am. Try Circuit Cellar INK (embedded control,
http://www.circellar.com/
), Nuts & Volts (ham radio, amateur robotics
articles by Karl Lunt and others), or MicroComputer Journal
(http://www.midengr.com/micro.htm).
The ads (which take up 1/3? of E. Now) were pretty good. Go to the
library.
- j
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