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This is the fifth article in a series about the Elektorlive-event Elektor has published many articles on audio amplifiers over the years. I started reading the magazine in 1974, but this is an even older design: The “Edwin-amplifier” from 1971. Harry Baggen had borrowed it from Jan Buiting‘s collection to be able to show “how [...]
Retrotronics
This is the fourth article in a series about the Elektorlive-event. Of course I went to see Jan Buiting, who did a talk on “retrotronics”: That is vintage electronics. He had brought lots and lots of electronic equipment from the past sixty years and invited the audience to select which device interested them. He had [...]
Elektor Internet Radio
This is the second article in a series about the Elektorlive-event. The first lecture I visited was about the Elektor Internet Radio (EIR) and the speaker was Antoine Authier. Most of the speaking was done by Harald Kipp, who developed the hardware and software. The hardware is the Ethernut 3 card, which is equipped with [...]
Elektorlive
Today I visited the Elektorlive event in the Evoluon in Eindhoven.Some 1500 people had pre-registered, but the whether conditions were not optimal. It was the first snow day in this winter. But more than 1000 people did show up! Of course most of the people there were men. There were only an handful of women [...]
Cooking-range
My mother had been using the same kitchen stove for exactly fifty years. Made by ETNA. Indestructible quality indeed. But over the past few years it had developed a few minor problems… So my sister and I (plus our partners of course) decided something had to be done. A new stove was called for! And [...]