I don’t do many reviews, but this sorta one, Technica Curiosa is:

Technica Curiosa is the new and exciting hub of a highly-connected family of iconic media brands—brands endowed with rich legacies of world-changing, decades-spanning influence. As such, they are among the world’s most recognized, respected, shared, and deeply read titles. By consistently and creatively tapping into readers’ innate curiosity, imagination, and inventiveness, our brands have in turn inspired the creation of entire industries. No question, the road to innovation is quite literally paved with the content published in these exceptional titles.

We take our name, Technical Curiosa, from the 17th Century tome compiled by the Jesuit priest, scholar, and scientist Gasper Schott, S.J.—regarded as one of the most learned men of his time—and the originator of the “popular science” genre.

As a source of “much useful knowledge,” Schott’s Technica Curiosa (published in 1666, the year of his death) was a massive and comprehensive compendium of scientific and mechanical technologies that anticipated—and helped bring about—the Scientific Revolution. In its day the book did much to inspire interest in the sciences with its many amusing and fascinating tricks and experiments, including a description of a perpetual motion machine, and even instructions on how to walk on water!

It’s the home of Popular Electronics, Mechanix Illustrated, and Popular Astronomy – it’s free to subscribe. I am not sure if they spam or anything, so do whatever you usually do when you sign up for things you want or not. Expect some fun stuff with Adafruit in upcoming issues of all of these. John the editor of the magazine(s) was delightful to email with about some ideas – stay tuned. Adafruit has an ad on page 11 of Mechanix Illustrated (preview in the image above). And while I’ve written about Massimos’ in the past, this issue was about Mike Massimo the astronaut.

On to the review, these are really good, and this is from someone (me) who worked/works on magazines, so I’m super picky about what magazine(s) I’ll read now (it’s a matter of time, not desire). That is the review. No one asked me to post this or anything, I am sure John is going to read this be surprised I posted this. That is the review.

Hug report going to Bruce who designed the page!