On 5 April 2012 16:56, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
?Really!! ?Very cool. ?I got my start in electronics
with the 65-in-1
kit, when I was 7. ?I remember that Christmas morning very, very well.
Ah memories..
I was about the same age when I got introduced to electronics. My mum
was a teacher, but her school and my primary school holidays
occasionally didn't match, so I'd end up sat at the back of her class
(she taught Biology) making up simple circuits on some sort of
industrial-strength (i.e. almost teenager-proof) pegboard system that
my mother borrowed from the science labs!
I then got one of the 65-in-1-type kits, second hand, though sadly I
can't remember what type or even make. I remember it did radios and a
"burglar alarm", (light sensitive resistor, and torch, either side of
a doorway) and it wasn't much further on that I graduated to soldering
up single-use kits from Tandy,
Fun :-)
Rob