Steve Ciarcia is an embedded control systems

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. He became popular through his ''Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar'' column in ''

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'' magazine, and later through the ''Circuit Cellar'' magazine that he published. He is also the author of ''

Build Your Own Z80 Computer ''Build Your Own Z80 Computer: design guidelines and application notes'' is a book written by Steve Ciarcia, published in 1981 by McGraw-Hill. The book explains step-by-step the process of building a computer from the ground up, using the Zilog ...

'', edited in 1981 and ''Take My Computer...Please!'', published in 1978. He has also compiled seven volumes of his hardware project articles that appeared in ''

'' magazine. In 1982 and 1983 he published a series of articles on building the MPX-16, a 16-bit single-board computer that was hardware-compatible with the IBM PC. In December 2009, Steve Ciarcia announced that for the American market a strategic cooperation would be entered between ''

Elektor :''Elektor (ἠλέκτωρ) is also an ancient Greek name or epithet of the Sun, see Helios.'' ''Elektor'', also known as ''Elektor Magazine'', is a monthly magazine about all aspects of electronics, originally published in the Netherlands as ''E ...

'' and his ''Circuit Cellar'' magazine. In November 2012, Steve Ciarcia announced that he was quitting ''Circuit Cellar'' and ''Elektor'' would take it over.Ciarcia Onward and Upward; Circuit Cellar; November 26, 2012.
/ref> In October 2014, Ciarcia purchased ''Circuit Cellar'', ''audioXpress'', ''Voice Coil'', ''Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook'', and their respective websites, newsletters, and products from Netherlands-based Elektor International Media. The aforementioned magazines will continue to be published by Ciarcia's US-based team. In July 2016, Steve Ciarcia sold the company to long time employee KC Prescott operating under the company name KCK Media Corp.

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Circuit Cellar magazine

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