Elektor’s October 2009 issue: download or newsstand

Elektor’s October 2009 edition is now on sale in UK and European newsstands and bookshops.

From the contents:

Barometric Altimeter · Car Tilt Alarm · Hearing Threshold Tester for PC · Hexadoku October 2009 · High-End Audio Amplifier Kits · Mini Preamplifier · Noise is not cool · Philbrick K2-W, the mother of all op amps · Pocket Preamp (part 2) · Portable solar battery chargers · Review: PSoC kit with RF module · Sound Sorcery · The Sound of Silence · Touch LEDs for Arduino.

The online version with exactly the same content, cover to cover, is also available for downloading against 50 e-credits, defeating a bus ticket to the city or coins for the parking meter. 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 and New Zealand who normally have to wait 6 to 8 weeks before Elektor is stocked locally.

The October 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.