Best of the BAY-ern [8]

Best of the BAY-ern [8]: All about Elektor at BAUMA 2019 in Munich, Big Fusion with Dutch specialist magazine and of course, the winner of NXP Cup 2019...

Author Burkhard Kainka’s inspiring Foreword in the book I’m reviewing here has important clues as to why software defined radio (SDR) is a hit not only among existing radio amateurs. SDR has proven to be a great promotion tool for the declining radio hobby in general. Since the tuning and decoding of shortwave radio signals is now done with a minimum of hardware and powerful (free) software, it’s easy to see why newcomers to the radio hobby and others with “DC minds” or with “deep fears of RF” have been totally captured by the concept of SDR.

Fast Forward, the startup platform powered by Elektor, was once a niggling startup itself (in fact, no more than scrawling on a beer coaster). After two highly successful performances at the 2016 and 2018 electronica trade shows, the Fast Forward platform acquired status as totally innovative and is now rolled out again jointly with Messe München at productronica 2019 from 12-15 November.

Contents pages 4-5 Elektor May & June 2019

Elektor International Media (EIM) recently acquired the Dutch trade journal Elektronica. According to EIM, the acquisition of Elektronica fits in perfectly with the growing media portfolio.

Best of the BAY-ern [7]: BMW & Daimler cooperate to combine the strengths of BAY-ern and the BAY-area, FabLab Nuremberg moved to Fürth and opens up the gates, what are the next events, meet-ups and more? Findthe answer here....

Elektor’s racing vehicle called Fast Forward has been out on the race track since 2016 when the ‘FFWD’ team made a solid impression at the prestigious electronica trade show in Munich. After an even more successful event last year November, FFWD will be rolled out big time again at productronica 2019 in November. We've only one advice: > PARTICIPATE!

Delicacies from BAY-ern [6]: The sun comes out and the electronics scene in Bavaria is also inviting. What's the status at the NXP Cup? What is productronica Fast Forward doing and, above all, what can you experience at embedded world 2019 in Nuremberg?

Elektor Industry, the leading global magazine platform in English and German for talented entrepreneurs, young innovators, designers, start-ups, and scale-ups has released its first issue for the year 2019. It is available both in print and online and you can read it now.

Here comes a luxury problem! One of the stronger factors discouraging potential users to opt for STMicroelectronics microcontrollers traditionally has been: there are too many to choose from. Some people find this fascinating and a sign of constant technological progress, while others are in constant uncertainly as to which ‘STM32’ device or board is the best for the application at hand. Frankly, with STMicro’s enormous product range it’s easy to lose count of the number of ARM and ARM-Cortex based processors.