Steve Ciarcia is an embedded control systems engineer. He became popular through his Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar column in BYTE magazine, and later through the Circuit Cellar magazine that he published. He is also the author of "Build Your Own Z80 Computer" book, edited back in 1981 and "Take My Computer...Please!" book, published in 1978.
In December 2009 Steve Ciarcia announced that for the American market a strategic cooperation would be entered between Elektor and his Circuit Cellar magazine [1]