On 03/07/2014 05:06 PM, Mark Hanchey wrote:
> On 3/6/2014 4:25 PM, Martin Klingensmith wrote:
>> Up until recently there was Popular Electronics, Electronics Now
>> (Radio Electronics), etc. They often had fairly interesting, complex
>> projects. They went out of business or were absorbed. Circuit Cellar,
>> Elektor, and Nuts and Volts still exist if you want a variety of
>> projects in printed form.
>
> The thing that made me look for alternatives to paper magazines is when
> they stopped publishing all the information I would need to build one of
> the projects. If you look at old magazines they had code listings, pcb
> images you could etch and everything needed to make it work. Now the
> trend is to put links to the code, pcb, etc. That is fine for the month
> that the magazine is published, but come a year or 2 later and links are
> dead, software missing, it really hurts the value of the magazine by
> making it a paper/online hybrid. I can't archive the magazines anymore
> with the thought of coming back to a project so they end up trashed.

Circuit Cellar still has their projects from day one on their web site.
Otherwise I agree, a huge problem which makes them useless as a reference.

There is one other issue with electronic magazines that I truly hate!
The magazine column format. While it works for print, it doesn't work
for a reader. My desktop has a large enough monitor where I can fit
the page on a single screen (except when I increase the size, grrr).
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