Your Fav Book or Magazine for electonics.

[wrinkledcheese]

I think 309 is available as well. I tried posting a link about elector but it didn't take and I tried posting it 3 times.

Yeah 309 is available
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[mvs sarma]

In my part of the world, i like Silicon Chip ( years ago it was called Electronics Australia ).
Very well published, interesting projects.
On of my favorite topics in it is, The Serviceman , in where he writes about fault found in electrical appliances, TV's VCR's etc.

An other good magazine i occasionally buy is Elektor or Elektuur ( Dutch version ) and the 300 series of schematics books which have a wealth of interesting schema's extracted from the Elector magazines.
Currently 308 is available at any good electronics shop like Jaycars.

It is newds for me that SiliconChip was former Electronics Australia.
Publications like 300 Series canonly be called reprints to serve those who missed the magagines.

 

[Torben]

I like:

Nuts-n-Volts (http://www.nutsvolts.com/) (USA)
Everyday Practical Electronics (**broken link removed**) (UK)
Servo Magazine (http://www.servomagazine.com/) (USA)

Any ham radio magazines: Practical Wireless etc. These have all sorts of electronics tidbits and gems.

I like the Tab book Teach Yourself Electronics (**broken link removed**) Note that this book includes a lot of examples which might require extra components (usually capacitors, it seems) to work in the real world.

If you're really keen, the Art of Electronics (Horowitz & Hill) is a good one. It's pretty intense but has the benefit of being unambiguous and thorough. If you really want to know about how to build a temperature-stable amplifier or how to size a heat sink, this will help.

Hanging out on forums like this and reading what some of the more experienced folks have to say is also very, very helpful. If you have questions, make them complete and include details of what you're trying to do.

For Usenet (these days, AKA Google Groups), sci.electronics.basics has a lot to offer, or at least has had. The signal to noise ratio can be pretty high nowadays. (http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.basics/topics)

The ". . .for Evil Geniuses" books are fun, but seem to require you to order special pieces from the author to build the projects presented.

If you have access to a Radio Shack or other source, anything by Forrest Mims is a good reference. Dont expect to build, say, a great radio from the "Engineer's Notebook" series, though. (http://www.forrestmims.com/)


Torben