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BrianP
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Posted: 02:14am 25 Feb 2018

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My 2 bitcoins worth...

They should think long & hard about why EA went the way it did. For those of us in the more (ahem) mature age group - we don't do "flashy".

I agree with Glenn - my vote also is for more grass roots stuff - they can still do some flashy as well for the younger generation. Trouble is, there are less & less of we more "hands on" types that had to make things from oddments in the earlier days. But that was extremely rewarding. Too much pre-packaged "assemble" rather than "build" stuff these days.

Then again, the name of the magazine is "Silicon Chip"!

But I guess I'm showing my age...

palcal

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Posted: 08:04am 25 Feb 2018

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If possible go back and look at an old Radio & Hobbies magazine. I had every issue ever printed (thanks Dad for the early ones) I donated them to the Historical Radio Society. Now that was an interesting magazine a bit of everything and nothing was ever repeated.
Paul.

"It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all"

CaptainBoing

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Posted: 09:14am 25 Feb 2018

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Going back through a heap of mags, I find some the projects are mega simple - the reason is (I hope and think) they need to pander to the constant stream of next-genners - these young kids (I started dabbling when i was about 8) that don't "get it" and just want to get soemthing working and need to start with very basic basics.

Magazines can't easily put a stake in the ground and move with that generation because others get left behind (and only last week I reminded a colleague that his snobbery was unbecoming as we all began as something else). If you can stretch to a bit of vero and a soldering iron, SMD can be a right so-and-so but a selection pack of E3s from ebay is an easy pocket-money goal - precisely the route I took with Maplin... God bless the 741 and 555. I still remember the first time I got a LED flashing, I was so happy... the one bright spark in a stream of failed projects and me with no idea how to fault-find...

For me, one of the best bits of EE was "Ingenuity unlimited" I loved the reader contributions - the idea of putting the LED in the discharge path of the capacitor so it would flash for almost a year between battery changes! It was like gold!

The world of microcontrollers - wow - if I had them 40 odd years ago... new worlds!Edited by CaptainBoing 2018-02-26

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