Thursday, 14 February 2019

There Are 200 Electronic Kits In That Box

quote [ If you grew up in the latter part of the 20th century, you didn’t have the Internet we have today — or maybe not at all. What you did have, though, was Radio Shack within an hour’s drive. They sold consumer electronics, of course, but they also sold parts and kits. In addition to specific kits, they always had some versions of a universal kit where lots of components were mounted on a board and you could easily connect and disconnect them to build different things. [RetoSpector78] found a 200-in-1 kit at a thrift store that was exactly like the one he had as a kid and he shares it with us in the video below. ]

I had one of these. Breadboarding isn't quite as easy as these spring kits, but Arduinos and the variety of their sensor modules reminds me a lot of them. Same energy, as the kids say.
[SFW] [do it yourSElf] [+7 Old]
[by steele@8:08pmGMT]

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knumbknutz said @ 8:21pm GMT on 14th Feb [Score:1 Funsightful]
Not down modding you - lets get a "+10 Old" on this.

Damn that takes me back more than a couple of decades. I remember building a SAPP-1 on on a bunch of breadboards, some basic as shit components, 8 LEDs for the output, and 18 gauge wire. After I walked to Tech-school in the snow, uphill, both ways of course.

Good times...
steele said @ 9:41pm GMT on 15th Feb
It was worth a shot. :)
5th Earth said @ 5:20am GMT on 15th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
Had this exact kit. Well, technically it was my brother's.
endopol said @ 6:04pm GMT on 15th Feb
My mom knew what she was doing, getting one of those. I passed through several levels of intellectual maturity, just fiddling with that kit and manual. Anyone else try to pry the "code key" out of the box because they thought it was a security key or something?
LacheChance said @ 3:03am GMT on 17th Feb
You sunk my battleship!
Ankylosaur said[1] @ 4:42am GMT on 17th Feb
Idea: a battle circuits game, like battleship, only two players put components on breadboards that are linked to each other so one can block the other's circuit or reroute around a block. After they set up their circuits they push a button to determine a winner, maybe based on getting certain leds on top to light.

The Saturday morning tv commercial for it will have the losing kid clenching his fist and grimacing "You grounded by battle circuit!"

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