On 2023-09-15 17:31, Wayne Burdick wrote:
I was 8 years old.
*** I've been trying to interest my 9 year old in electronics & radio.
Am leveraging his love for making things. Which
mostly is alas focused on Legos.
When the COVID hit, I immediately got on Amazon and ordered the
biggest, most elaborate "snap circuits" kit. It was sort
of a bust. He did a few of them and lost interest. The trouble with
snap circuits is that the elaborate ones - the ones that
do interesting things - depend on ICs that they have packaged up. Black
boxes that hide all the fun. Also, for some strange
reason, Snap Circuits doesn't use schematics in their workbooks.
I like the old Radio Shack multi-project kits better, and I got him
the last-biggest one that they made. Actual
schematics.
I had him build a Velleman kit that I had laying around. He was
scared of the soldering iron. I said "just don't touch
the metal part" :).
- Jerry, KF6VB
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