Elektor’s December 2009 issue has a focus on home automation, their standards and ways to cut your electricity bill. It also contains the long awaited preselector board for the now world famous Elektor SDR (software defined radio). The issue is available from UK newsstands and bookshops on Thursday November 19, 2009. Elektor PLUS subscribers may already download the complete issue using their personalized web page (portal link below).
From the contents (alphabetical order):
Another two NC Headphones Testing models from Creative and Bose
BLDC and PIM modules added to RS Components’ EDP E-Labs Inside section
Bluetooth with the ATM18 The Vikings Are Coming!
Christmas Circuit Collection 14 low cost circuits for beginners
Elektor Developers’ Conference Edition 01 E-Labs Inside section
Hexadoku December 2009 Puzzle with an electronics touch
Home Automation Standards Roadmap or Tower of Babylon?
Mailbox December 2009
Minimalistic Time Switch A lot of features in a small package
Open Standards for the Automated Home X10, KNX and DigitalSTROM
Preselector for Elektor SDR Here’s the automatic tuning upgrade!
Squeezing Out the Last Drop How to make your electronic devices even more energy efficient
The Z550M: an unusual counter valve (ca. 1959) Retronics section
Top-of-the-Bill Lights Sequencer Programmable fairy lights
Non-subscribers will also be able to access the online version shortly against 50 e-credits. The full magazine download -- a pdf file of about 15 Megabytes -- may be found under the <<Magazine>> tab on the homepage.
E-credits are easy to buy and add to your personal account – simply log on to www.elektor.com and use the Elektor Credits button in the Products box on the homepage. The easiest way to pay is probably by Paypal. Special servers are available to cope with the accumulated traffic caused by clients getting the download.
Every issue of Elektor published since September 2006 can be downloaded in its entirety for storing in your personal archive. The pdf format allows convenient printing and browsing. The price in e-credits is invariably lower than that of the equivalent printed copy bought from a newsstand, plus you avoid the hassle of ‘sold out’, ‘not stocked’, ‘computer-sez-no’, as well as travel expenses to get to the shopping centre in the first place. The online edition also beats the newsstands for timing as it appears roughly on the same day UK mainland subscribers get their copy by post. This should be of great interest to readers in distant locations like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa who normally have to wait 6 to 8 weeks before Elektor is stocked locally.
The December 2009 contents may be browsed using the link below. From there, it’s just a few clicks to reading the latest copy of Elektor magazine on your PC.
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