What's the best Christmas present you've ever received?
Mine was my first ever playstation when I was 6!
26-30, M
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ninalanyon · 61-69, T
Philips Electronics Kit at age 10 in 1965.
Brandon101 · 26-30, M
@ninalanyon what's an electronics kit?
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@Brandon101 They were kits of parts that could be used to make a radio, electronic organ, Morse code transmitter, or whatever circuitry you designed yourself without any soldering. Here is a picture from Hans Otten's web site on the subject:
https://www.hansotten.com/electronic-kits/ee-series/ee8-ee20-a20/
SW-User
@ninalanyon Not quite your circa, but I'm happy I existed when kits like this existed
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@SW-User Yes, me too. It seems to me that it was a lot easier to get started; to make something that did something in those days. Now we have much more capable components like Arduino and related things but it isn't quite as immediate some how.
That kit was given to me at just the time I was starting to be interested in science and I think probably influenced me in my choice of career.
That kit was given to me at just the time I was starting to be interested in science and I think probably influenced me in my choice of career.
SW-User
@ninalanyon Maybe it's my old mind, but there is something to building and understanding what you are building that is part of the fun and learning process?
What do you do?
What do you do?
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@SW-User I was an electronics engineer but I'm a bit rusty now, spent the last 25 years as a software developer. How about you?