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Gizmo

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Posted: 01:59pm 04 Dec 2014

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Found this site in a HackADay post. Its a archive of Popular Electronics magazine, from 1954 to 1982. Each magazine is in PDF form and free to download.

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guid e.htm

They also have archives of Electronics World, Radio News, Byte, etc. Great resource.

Unfortunately no EA or ETI magazines in the archive. You can get copies of individual articles from EA and ETI for about $9 per article from the Silicon Chip web site. In my view $9 for a scanned article is ridiculous, and if the article was spread out over a few months, you have to pay for each month. The site does make comment about the work involved warrants the price, but I dont buy it. Surely the articles have already been scanned in the past, and saved, so all they would need to do is email the file, or print and post. I would be OK to pay $2 to $5 for a PDF of the entire magazine for a particular month, but $9 for a few scanned pages is a joke.

If anyone else knows of any other magazine archives on the internet, please share them, and I'll add a permanent link on the main web site.

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ando
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Posted: 10:49am 10 Dec 2014

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That's a huge gold mine of information Gizmo, thanks very much for sharing.

Last year I downloaded the Talking Electronics magazines (15 issues) in the form of pdf's. When I find the link I will post it here unless someone beats me to it.
The owner of Talking Electronics, Colin, has made them public domain.

He has a site here....

http://www.talkingelectronics.com/te_interactive_index.html

There are lots of goodies to be found there including a number of books, mostly pdf's.
Just scroll down the left side of the page to find it all. Cheers.

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Posted: 12:31pm 10 Dec 2014

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Certainly a gold mine, HackaDay has a lot of interesting projects, amazing what enthusiasts have constructed.

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Posted: 01:53pm 14 Dec 2014

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These bring back memories. It would be fun to build the Solar Powered Sundial in the
March, 1980 issue.

Pete Locke
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Posted: 02:43pm 14 Dec 2014

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JFlynn said These bring back memories. It would be fun to build the Solar Powered Sundial in the
March, 1980 issue.

Yes. Just did a search for the LM1820's. Not listed

. There would be something a bit more modern to use I guess

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Posted: 09:05pm 26 Dec 2014

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Pete Locke said

JFlynn said These bring back memories. It would be fun to build the Solar Powered Sundial in the
March, 1980 issue.

Yes. Just did a search for the LM1820's. Not listed

. There would be something a bit more modern to use I guess

You could use either a pair of photo diodes or photo transistors.

Some amplification would be necessary, but this could be easily done with a dual Op Amp.

If anyone wants to do it & needs help, send me a pm.

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