On 3/6/2014 4:25 PM, Martin Klingensmith wrote:
> Up until recently there was Popular Electronics, Electronics Now=20
> (Radio Electronics), etc. They often had fairly interesting, complex=20
> projects. They went out of business or were absorbed. Circuit Cellar,=20
> Elektor, and Nuts and Volts still exist if you want a variety of=20
> projects in printed form.=20

The thing that made me look for alternatives to paper magazines is when=20
they stopped publishing all the information I would need to build one of=20
the projects. If you look at old magazines they had code listings, pcb=20
images you could etch and everything needed to make it work. Now the=20
trend is to put links to the code, pcb, etc. That is fine for the month=20
that the magazine is published, but come a year or 2 later and links are=20
dead, software missing, it really hurts the value of the magazine by=20
making it a paper/online hybrid. I can't archive the magazines anymore=20
with the thought of coming back to a project so they end up trashed.

Mark

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