Ilse Joostens (36)

| If you work with electronics professionally and you would also like to make the step to product development, then you need to be a jack of a...

| When I was a teenager, the main hobby electronics activity was rebuilding audio amplifiers, audio equipment and related disco stuff, occasio...

| SMT components. Despite some initial trepidation, working with these horribly tiny parts turned out to be not as bad as imagined and soon I...

| In the 70s, we still had a black and white tube television made by ACEC [1], which had a directional indoor antenna on top, a conical thing...

| The sun was high above the horizon. It was scorching hot and the warm, muggy air spiralled above the tarmac while the planes taxied along. A...

| The life of the electronics enthusiast is not always plain sailing, irrespective of whether you are a beginning hobbyist or a dyed-in-the-wo...

| Every now and then I go somewhere and it occurs to me that the desk of the typical electronics engineer stands in sharp contrast to that of...

| A long time ago, the French teacher at the technical college, an enthusiastic museum visitor and opera lover, was in the classroom on a driz...

| The world has clearly become a lot more dangerous since I was young, and with the introduction of the RoHS regulations in 2006 the European...

| Having digested Elektor’s Nixie Bargraph Thermometer article [1] one reader based in the American Midwest kindly advised that temperatures i...