Although the May 2008 issue of Elektor will appear to have the usual 88 pages, there are in fact 95 more waiting for you on the Elektor website. All is revealed on page 12 in the magazine. The ‘15 Elektor Blockbusters’ ebook is available to all readers of Elektor, i.e. both faithful subscribers and newsstand buyers.
Browsing the May 2008 issue you’ll once again discover the careful balance we try to maintain between the microcontroller foray (as some call it) on the one hand and good & solid analogue electronics on the other. The microcontroller addicts get their dose of hardware and software with Display Computer, an M16C based controller board; DigiButler part 2 in which the programming and url-ing are discussed (did you notice the incredibly low price of the kit?); Elektor AVR Prog, an advanced but low-cost Atmel chip programmer, Tiny Counter, an ATtiny ‘doing’ 5 MHz without a prescaler; a review of PICKit5 from MikroElektronika and finally a backgrounder on interrupts in Flowcode, the software behind E-blocks.
Top-notch analogue design from Elektor’s famous audio kitchen weighs in at eleven pages with the second part of paX: a power amplifier with error correction and Protection System for Power Amplifiers. Exquisite discrete electronics with extensive explanations from an expert in the field.
‘Where audio meets the PC’ is the subject of Measuring on the PC Display. The article I believe proves that software goes a long way in doing all kinds of audio-related measurements on the PC and using the soundcard, that is, without dedicated equipment.
The usual small items this month include Hexadoku, Design Tips and an instalment of Retronics on a 1973 telephone answering machine.
Happy reading!
Jan Buiting, Editor
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