The slightly younger generation on this list likely grew up with the Tandy xxx-in-one electronics kits (which usually included the components necessary for an AM radio). As Tandy left the market Maplin picked up the baton, but now they're gone too, which leaves kits like these on Amazon - 50-in-one https://amzn.to/2OVpNb3 200-in-one https://amzn.to/2R0wIkF
The nice thing about such kits is that it's pretty easy to bring in some breadboard and discrete components once the kit itself has been exhausted.
Beyond that there's Seeedstudios Grove Kits (e.g. Starter kit for Arduino https://amzn.to/2R5Gi5G), and things like Adafruit kits https://www.adafruit.com/category/203 (available locally from PiMoroni https://shop.pimoroni.com/?q=adafruit).
-- Chris
On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 09:28, Jeremy Bennett jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com wrote:
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Hi all,
@here When I was young I learned a lot from "The Boys Book of Crystal Sets" ( https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Bookshelf/Technology/Boys-Book-... ) and the Ladybird book "Making a Transistor Radio" (https://archive.org/details/MakingATransistorRadio-LadybirdBook/page/n0).
These are largely unusable today, primarily because you cannot get 500pF air spaced variable capacitors (they come up second hand on eBay sometimes at a price, but with little guarantee about actual capacitance values). Plus they are dependent on germanium technology, although that is accessible at least for the diodes.
I have a 10 year old nephew who is very keen on electronics. I'd like to introduce him to the same sort of projects. Any suggestions what the modern equivalent would be?
Thanks,
Jeremy
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