> I can't see too many children being able to build circuits the way I > used to, since it will be very difficult/impossible to solder > components together. That must have a knock-on effect later in life, > since nobody would have taken much interst in electronics as a child, > since they were unable to make anything.
I'll bet kids can find other neat things to do. The world is different not better/worse. I didn't write any software when I was a kid. Assembling a robot and programming it seems like it would be fun. > Perhaps circuits published in magazines will need to use power > transistors, just so they are of a size that is practical to construct > without specialist tools and skill. Perhaps children of the future > will have to build your own 741 out of a bunch of 2N3055's. I don't have any troubles getting transistors in TO-92 packages. I think the emphasis will change from building X from scratch to building what it takes to interface something to sensors and control gizmos. -- The suespammers.org mail server is located in California. So are all my other mailboxes. Please do not send unsolicited bulk e-mail or unsolicited commercial e-mail to my suespammers.org address or any of my other addresses. These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts