OT: learner kits

[wulfman]

4000 series are really much more static sensitive than bullet proof ttl
there are pros and cons to everything 4000 series can use a higher VCC
where ttl is 5V
if you plan using 4000 series get him a wrist strap and a bench pad to
attach it to
grounding it all to earth.


On 6/19/2015 7:19 PM, Tapley, Mark wrote:
> All,
> 	My 14-year-old son has mentioned that he’d like a breadboard and some parts to fool with, and the pointer below really helps. I have an old Archerkit VOM already, and I’m thinking about turning him loose in August with the discrete components part kit, the VOM, a box of logic parts, and a copy of Horowitz and Hill. 
> 	Is there a reason to prefer 7400 series over CD4000 series logic? 
>
> http://www.jameco.com/Jameco/catalogs/c151/P30.pdf
>
> 	makes the CD4000 series look cheaper. 
>
> 	I also have a pair of old Tek 922 O-scopes, one of which has all of its knobs and switches intact and produces a trace. I’ll guess that they both need rebuilding; I have the instruction manuals, though, so maybe that is lesson 1? Is the TekScopes group the best place to find probes for one or both?
>
> 	I also have one of the 200-in-1 spring-termial projects; he played with that a bit, but there wasn’t enough logic there to do much computing :-) so he lost some interest.
>
> 	He has a Raspberry Pi, which he pretty much contempts in favor of his laptop, which will play the modern version of MineCraft :-P, but presumably hooking those together might be fun. 
>
> 	Should I add anything else to his pile? Is there a series of logic that’ll make things easier if he does end up hooking in the RPi?
> 	
> 	Thanks for any help! My own knowledge is pretty spotty in this field, so please feel free to start near ground-zero with helpful advice.
> 												- Mark
>
> On Jun 16, 2015, at 10:50 AM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>>
>>>> On Jun 16, 2015, at 08:19, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I wish there was some _easy_ way to lay in a stock of the most common TTL
>>>>> IC's - e.g. some kind of kit one could buy - but alas, I don't know of any.
>>>>> (Hence my dream of finding and acquiring someone else's collection! :-)
>>>>> Suggestions for the source of such a good diversified 'starter kit' welcome...
>>>>>
>>>> How about this:
>>>> http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_84961_-1
>>> Very nice! I might just order one of those.
>> They also offer 4000 series, transistor, resistor, and capacitor collections.
>>
>> g.
>>
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