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Most Elektor articles and projects are innovative in a way you wouldn't
have a hope of ever finding in monochromee EPE, let alone EW which is
just a collection of high-brow articles that fill pages easily.
E.W. isn't like that any more. ...possibly it never was.
It used to have a number of good articles written by professional
designers who also enjoyed electronics as a hobby. It was a good place
for them to publish ideas that didn't fit in with their paid research or
commercial design activities. These articles have become thinner on the
ground during the past 5 years.
A recent editor, with a poor grasp of the basics of electronics and
physics, dropped several clangers by letting through dubious articles
that didn't stand up to scrutiny (and at least one which I'm sure was an
intentional spoof).
Then, early this year, the latest editor wrote a disparaging comment
about 'garden shed' design and expressed her view that the future lay in
consumer goods. She has since published nothing of interest to the
enquiring mind, neither high-brow nor low-brow, but just stuffs the
pages with badly-written and thinly-disguised advertising material
culled from mostly American sales hype.
The standard of writing has dropped to barely comprehensible and the
remaining few circuit diagrams are poorly drafted with no consistent
style. One even had all the horizontal lines missing!
That sort of rubbish is available in free magazines, I don't see the
point of paying for it.
