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1-07-2019 | We have been living in the electronic age for well over a century now, since the invention of the triode by Lee de Forest in 1907. Roughly s...

1-05-2019 | It’s great fun and a complete journey of discovery to repair and recalibrate vintage electronics with the instruments, ‘standards’ and ‘fixt...

1-03-2019 | Today, graphics, artwork, and text we view on paper and on screens can be safely assumed to be of digital origin. That’s not implying the ab...

1-01-2019 | Just because it’s so stable and reliable in this day and age, the AC voltage on the power outlets in our electronics workspaces is often tak...

1-07-2018 | It is 1983. The microcomputer revolution has swept across the United States and is taking hold in Europe. Demand for expertise is rising rap...

1-05-2018 | Just shy of forty years ago, Elektor published two frequency counter project articles in the June 1978 issue. The ‘µP counter’ concept was f...

7-03-2018 | The principle of magnetic recording had been first demonstrated in 1898 by Valdemar Poulsen. Roughly half a century later, between 1946 and...

1-03-2018 | My collection of test equipment includes a Hewlett-Packard HP650A Test Oscillator. That model was launched in 1948, but the relatively high...

1-01-2018 | You probably think that reel-to-reel tape recorders are big and heavy, not suitable for mobile use. That’s not entirely true — the Report 40...

12-12-2017 | I met the authors of this book during the 2016 edition of Elektor’s Fast Forward Award event at the electronica trade show Munich. There, M...