With Elektor May/June 2021, we are celebrating a very special anniversary. Join us in looking back on 60 years of Elektor projects and much more.

Electronica Wereld, Elektuur, Elektor

The time has come: we are 60! In April 1961, Bob van der Horst published the first issue of his new magazine Electronica Wereld (World of Electronics), which was later renamed Elektuur and then Elektor. The publisher sensed a gap in the market here. Most of the electronics knowledge of the time was hidden in academic literature and countless datasheets, in difficult-to-digest papers and dull diagrams. Van der Horst foresaw that a lot of people like him would get excited about building electronic circuits — and, what was even more exciting, creatively adapting them for their own purposes or even developing them from scratch. To do this, you need the knowledge, and the best way to impart that knowledge is to help your readers achieve a sense of achievement step by step, and to make learning happen "along the way."
 
Elektor May/June 2021

Even 60 years later, we remain true to this successful model. Programming multi-core processors, developing with MicroPython and connecting your own hardware to web platforms are just three of the topics we want to introduce our readers to step by step — with the proven mix of theory and practice. As Editor-in-Chief, I benefit from the fact that our editors and our authors are all infected by the DIY virus. As a result, I almost never get an article on the table that is too dry and theoretical. Most of the time, I even have to slow down our creative minds so that the project doesn't become too extensive (because you always want a new issue on the table on time, after all). The best thing about it is that it keeps our finger on the pulse of the times. This keeps us young and our magazine fresh.

Just take a look at the Elektor May/June 2021 issue!
 

Inside Elektor May/June 2021  

From the Table of Contents in the Elektor May/June edition:   

  • Elektor turns 60!: A look back at six decades of electronics
  • DIY LiPo Supercharger Kit: From Prototype to Mass Market
  • DC Current Clamp: Self-built Hall sensor + ferrite cores + Arduino
  • Temperature Controlled Soldering Station 2021: Simply self-built!
  • WLAN Instead of LoRa switch: Integrated in Home Assistant with ESPHome
  • Time recording with ESP32 and Toggl Home-Office with the M5Stack
  • DC-DC converter 12 V to 200 V Safe high voltage for tube amplifiers
  • Review Siglent desktop multimeter SDM3045X
  • Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040: What you should know about the Pico board and its controller
  • Heat Seeker: The Seek Shot Pro Thermal Imaging Camera
  • Object-Oriented Programming: A Short Introduction Under C++
  • Java on the Raspberry Pi Part 1: GPIOs
  • My lab Home Lab: An analog synthesizer by Kurt Diedrich
  • Remarkable components DIP switches
  • Learning Assembler on the Z80
  • And much more!

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