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Forrest Mimms?

Posted by Tweekeng (A) on May 11, 2009 at 21:13:09

In Reply to: Discontinued RadioShack kit posted by Bob Stern on May 9, 2009 at 00:17:33:

I would recommend solderless bread boards and an old copy of one of Forrest Mimms Engineer Notebooks.

For one breadboard are still the standard for prototyping and it's a good skill to learn. Plus they will get hands on with the parts.
Radio Shack USED to have the manuals for their electronics kit that used a bread board for download, but they do not any more.
I will look and see if I still have the PDF files.

When I was in high school we built simple single transistor circuits by first gluing the schematic on a 4x4 piece of wood. Then small copper coated nails were tapped in at the junctions. Passives like resistors, caps, and wires were soldered nail to nail, transistors were on little PCB's with three wires so you did not have worry about soldering them.

The common things like power supply, speakers, lamps or whatever were all prewired with alligator clips so we could just hook them up and go when we were ready.

This was fun and we learned soldering, schematics, component identification, and troubleshooting all at the same time

• (Google for radio shack engineer's notebook)   (Open in New Window)

Edits: 05/11/09

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