about this issue

Our often-quoted motto is: `Elek tor is different`. Well, this issue is even more different. Where a `normal` issue of Elektor contains about ten or twelve construc- tion articles, the `summer circuits` issue contains more than 100. This means that our design staff have to dream up nearly as many new circuits for one issue as would otherwise suffice for a whole year. And the number of circuits needed isn`t the only problem. The editor demands that the circuits should be `new`, `original`, `different`. The chief of design demands that they must work. And the deputy editors for the various editions demand that the components should be available. We haven`t yet reached the stage where every circuit meets all the demands, but nobody can say we didn`t try. Admittedly, some of the designs are based on manufacturer`s application notes (for which we thank all con- cerned), so they are not original - but we have tried to select application notes which are of general interest.