Did anyone grow up or get their start in electronics with these type of kits? Are they worth it as a beginners learning tool and? And are there any electronics books that would pair along great with something like this that teach electrical stuff with a beginners point of view?
>>2859425Great question. I can do basic household wiring and some soldering, but I'm still pretty grug with electronics.
>>2859425I got this big arduino kit a couple years ago and never did a thing with it. I’ll solder and I’ve troubleshooted (shot?) a few electronic things, but I don’t have the time or energy to dive into the programming rabbithole, which seems like the big difference between those old Elenco kits and current day open souce microcontrollers.
>>2859425that's a fag
>>2859425Oldfag here. I got one of these in about 3rd grade. Did not understand any of the projects at the time. The project for a Wheatstone Bridge literally had a drawing of a stone bridge over a creek, which totally threw me for a loop. Lived out in the country so none of the radios worked for me. Eventually tossed it out.Later as an teen I bought a Radio Shack 200-in-1, which I learned about logic gates (NAND, OR/NOR flip flops, etc.) which gave me an idea how computers work.Did I become a CPU designer? No, just a lowly sysadmin. Thanks for reading my blog.
I got an elenco snap circuits kit as a kid and went through roughly half of the experiments in the book before getting bored. I did use the radio transmitter circuit in the kit for some sort of science fair project though. I did eventually get a EE degree in college, but the kit did not contribute to my interest in the field. I don't remember this kit going into detail or really explaining the principles too well. I might've ignored that shit as a kid though.
>>2859425who's the ugly dude?
>>2859496Fran. Pretending to be an older lady is his thing.
>>2859498>FranFran? why do trannies always pick the worst womens name ever?
>>2859425Overpriced>>2859430Too many meme componentsGet a breadboard and some parts and make some astable blinking oscillators, see if it's for you or not for less than $30
>>2859583I think there’s a breadboard in that arduino kit, and then I got these little boards, but then was looking at 8 million different components and transistors and different types of caps and was like “I’m in over my head” and gave up. Maybe one day… a few weeks ago was one of the first times I pulled some components off a circuit board and repaired it after this 18V landscape lighting transformer shat out on me and I couldn’t easily find a replacement
>>2859425My older brother had one and refused to let me use it. About a year later the family got a home computer so I learned programming while he learned how to install car stereos. >>2859502It's an age appropriate name. Most of them pick names that are either several decades too young for them (Bruce Jenner should be "Linda", which was the female name of equal popularity the year he was born) or is something a stripper would use as a stage name. "Fran" is obviously a mentally ill man but from the few videos I've seen, he's not trying to push his illness on others nor does he get into the politics of any of it. But I've only seen a few videos so it's possible some of that has gone on in other videos.
>>2859425Yeah i remember i had one of those as a kid and i really liked the feeling i got on my tongue when licking the batteries.
>>2859608>he's not trying to push his illness on othersby publicly displaying his obscene persona he has indirectly assaulted me. I did not consent to live in a world where such sexual perversion is on display nor did I consent to have to know about this one specific freak, it makes me feel ill and places my bloodline at risk of being mislead. Since this is clearly a self defense scenario we would be justified if we were to construct a giant woodchipper disguised as a closet and gently usher them all into it.
>>2859476Based
>>2859608>It's an age appropriate name.that's insane .
>>2859742I watched his videos a long time ago before I realized he was a he. I couldn't figure out how such and ugly chick new so much about electronics. then found out he really was a he.
I had a science kit that made wiring easy with little springs for each connection and a full spring style bread board you'd move the spring to the side stretching the opposite side and slid the wire in. All external connectors were bare wire and spring, had a little voltmeter on the front lightbulb socket and a luminosity sensor. Power rail was a couple d batteries I usually hooked up a 9 volt. It was a large cumbersome simple bread board.Bulb was incandescent and the luminosity sensor I think was a led. Voltmeter was analogue and wire gauge was similar to single strand of cat, I learned to strip wire with that kit.
>>2859775I did not look at the picture. Mine was blue and it was about light.
>>2859425If you know nothing and they are not too price for you anything you can learn with is of value. I was at Microcenter store and chatting with a sales person about Arduino and Raspberry Pi and I mentioned wanting to buy individual capacitors, resistors or transistors and he had a blank look and did not know what I was talking about. I mentioned other store where they sell those parts and he still had no idea. I had a few of those kits when I was a kid then took electronics in high school and was making encoded tv signal decoders for free pay per view back in they day. It always helps to get your hands on to lear, but you will also get past those to higher level stuff pretty quick. You can make your own pc boards, or draw them the email the design to busines who will professionally make them and ship them to you and then you can solder in your parts. Learn to hold the soldering iron correctly, not like the DEI style.
Does picrel count? I had some of this shit as a kid.Also I remember these RC cars that could do extra stuff, one had a cobra head that popped up and sprayed water. And when I inevitably got bored and broke the thing, I found out you could hook the power for the sprayer up to some flashlight terminals or a little electric motor and activate it with the remote, so I had a remote control car with whatever on top.Then I probably lost the charger. Because I didn’t have the attention span to really follow through with the stuff.
Yeah, those are great!
>>2859775Damn that kit sounds cool. I wonder which one it was.
The arrl handbook is the one you're looking for. Anything less than that and you're looking at too basic like the make electronics book, anything more than that and you're looking at something that is too dry like the art of electronics or practical electronics for inventors. Well dry and hard. Where do you guys pirate your books btw that book is $70 on amazon... They've really crack down on this piracy stuff. That's if you want to get into ham radios i mean. For most practical purposes a microcontroller should cover most cases.
>>2859775Pretty sure I had the same kit or another one with the spring connectors and voltmeter. My parents bought me a bunch of those "science kits" and still buy them for their grandkids.
>>2859586those green boards are nice for prototyping. breadboards are terrible for anything other than the most basic circuits. they get loose with time and parts can be hard to insert and it is just a lot of frustration. and pin heads and blue terminals are also useful for low currents probably < 1A.
>>2860544>breadboards are terrible for anything other than the most basic circuits.https://www.youtube.com/c/beneater
>>2859425that's a dude.
>>2860725>repeatedly cites the breadboard as a speed limitation
Library when I was a kid used to have a snap together electronics kit.My favourite circuit was obviously the AM/FM radio. However retards broke the transistors because they kept trying to twist them (they thought it was a twist knob) so eventually the kit never got used again. kit would've been picrel, and I'm 100% sure thats the AM radio showcased on the front of the box
Fran does / did great utube vidz. I didnt see a tranny…because im not some homophonic trying to hide my curiosity by talking shit…These videos are awesome.
>>2859498I didn't get the vibe that 'fran' was a man. It took me a minute of reading this thread to realize who it was you are talking about.Totally looks and sounds and behaves like an older engineer chick. They are fucking rare, which is why DIE is so gay, retarded and fantastically unrealistic ('50% of STEM jobs for females). But they do exist in the single digits, on their own. Maybe 1 in 10,000.
>>2862563Oh well"and a trans woman in the man’s world of geekery and sexist merchandising"https://www.lennyletter.com/story/the-lenny-interview-fran-blanche
>>2859425The elegoo arduino kits are probably the best bet in current year. You can use all the other components without needing to program anything. I know there's other kits that have nothing but ic's. Sky's really the limit here. If you want good books on the subject, go check out /ohm/ or /mcg/
>>2859425I had the one with the springs and my brother had a slightly bigger version. I became an actual engineer and have custom electronics in all my cars, understand relays, installed solar, and have rewired whole houses, added circuit boxes and dropped two phase outlets. My brother is a paper pusher for the state government and doesn't understand there is a difference between putting AA batteries end to end vs connecting the pluses and minuses. The moral is, buy the slightly less complex kit.
>>2859425fresh techno tranny get in NOWhttps://youtu.be/xVuq8B-iL7s?si=Q-QnY-idKZ3yIamo
>>2862563guys a dude and it's obvious. suspected it when I first started watching it's videos. something seemed off. googled it, and yup it's a dude. stopped watching immediately.
>>2859425Yea I did. Pretty much that exact kit on the bottom right. I think I got it for my 8th birthday but maybe it was 9 or 10. In hindsight it was a bit early, I had a very hard time understanding the final third or so because the ideas of impedance etc were still a bit complex. At some point you really need a textbook or exercise sort of thing to be able to understand the concept.After that I got a bunch of kits like pic related and learned soldering. Later did some more electronics, went to technical uni but as a mech eng. Then turned system design/programmer but still get to design pcbs sometimes when someone needs to integrate a meme component. I think nowadays you’re better off with an arduino kit because pcbs and circuits like have been (and still are) going out of fashion for new stuff. It’s even getting difficult to buy individual components these days.
>>2862563For me, it's Justine Haupthttps://youtu.be/zX7TdufZlTA?si=JwdZF9sTGwY4Uoyi
>>2859425Dad got my bro one of those even though I was the one pulling shit apart and fixing junk, while my bro was a book nerd.He wouldn't let me use it because it was his.
Damn i had no idea fran was a trans lolShe reminds me so much of my old art teacher whi im pretty aure is actually femaleNgl im a little bummed out but shes still cool
>>2859425snap circuitsarduinolego technic for connecting electronics to building blocks
Steam has a few simulations. I imagine it's cheaper to learn.
>>2862600>tiny ceramic and electrolytic caps>BJTs but no MOSFETs>no trimpots>no relays or lever switchesShit-tier kit
