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2 HN users recommended this between 2020 and 2025, in 2 comments.
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2 HN users recommended this between 2020 and 2025, in 2 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
I had an electronics learning lab from radio shack and loved the hands on aspects. https://www.amazon.com/RadioShack-28-280-Electronics-Learnin...
You can still find them on ebay, or similar kits if you look around.
Cool idea. I grew up with the most basic Snap Circuits kit[1] and a solderless breadboard kit from RadioShack[2] - other toys you might look to for inspiration.
I think I was about 12 when I got these, and I remember that the learning curve between them was pretty steep - I was building all sorts of custom circuits with Snap, but had maxed out the capabilities of such basic parts pretty quickly. I never did figure out how to make anything other than the step-by-step projects with the breadboard kit. Although the ICs on Snap are kind of laughable, I could at least figure out what they did (also I seem to remember every one of them just played a sound), but the Radio shack kit never really explained why anything worked the way it did or what the applications were outside of its recipes, so eventually it just went on the shelf and was forgotten. That would be one trap to avoid from my experience.
[1]: https://shop.elenco.com/consumers/snap-circuits-jr-100-exper...
[2]: https://www.amazon.com/RadioShack-28-280-Electronics-Learnin...