| When I was a teenager, I built a whole lot of electronic circuits like a chicken with its head cut off. I didn’t care much about the details...
Ilse Joostens (38)
| Time flies. This is already column number 13 in front of you. Now that the darker season is again upon us, it appears to me to be the ideal...
| If you work with electronics professionally and you would also like to make the step to product development, then you need to be a jack of a...
| When I was a teenager, the main hobby electronics activity was rebuilding audio amplifiers, audio equipment and related disco stuff, occasio...
| SMT components. Despite some initial trepidation, working with these horribly tiny parts turned out to be not as bad as imagined and soon I...
| In the 70s, we still had a black and white tube television made by ACEC [1], which had a directional indoor antenna on top, a conical thing...
| The sun was high above the horizon. It was scorching hot and the warm, muggy air spiralled above the tarmac while the planes taxied along. A...
| The life of the electronics enthusiast is not always plain sailing, irrespective of whether you are a beginning hobbyist or a dyed-in-the-wo...
| Every now and then I go somewhere and it occurs to me that the desk of the typical electronics engineer stands in sharp contrast to that of...
| A long time ago, the French teacher at the technical college, an enthusiastic museum visitor and opera lover, was in the classroom on a driz...