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EEVblog:
This is kinda cool, but I'm not sure how effective it's going to be to learn or spark interest in electronics?  :-//
Same company who made the Turing Tumble.

https://upperstory.com/spintronics

https://upperstory.com/spintronics/assets/circuit-write-in-video-2-1mpbs.mp4

Brumby:
Intriguing.

Somebody has put a lot of effort into developing a practical implementation of an electronics analogy.


--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 07, 2022, 11:33:02 am ---This is kinda cool, but I'm not sure how effective it's going to be to learn or spark interest in electronics?  :-//

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I agree.

abquke:

PlainName:

--- Quote ---I'm not sure how effective it's going to be to learn or spark interest in electronics?
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This is my second run-in with electronics. The first, when I was at school, I hated because I couldn't see how things worked. With mechanical stuff it's obvious, but with electronics you have to pretend stuff and it made no sense to me. Hence I became a mechanic (amongst other stuff). It was only much later with a proper education in electronics that I understood it and liked it.

This very cool kit might be the stepping stone from the easily understood mechanical toy to the pretty abstract electronic circuits. I could see some interesting circuit being put together and then translated to a real circuit to show how much easier and simpler it is to solder stuff than machine parts :)

ebastler:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on August 07, 2022, 04:24:32 pm ---This is my second run-in with electronics. The first, when I was at school, I hated because I couldn't see how things worked. With mechanical stuff it's obvious, but with electronics you have to pretend stuff and it made no sense to me.

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I can relate to that. Did not enjoy the electronics kits I had as a kid, since I could not see what was going on inside. What eventually fixed that for me was the oscilloscope, which I only got introduced to in some freshman physics labs at uni.

So I see the value of "tangible" models, which are more affordable and more basic than a scope. But the Spintronics mechanical gears and chains don't do the trick for me -- they seem forced as a model and not intuitive at all. Deep in "Armadillo" territory, as nicely illustrated by abquke.  ::)

The "water pipe" analogy works much better for me. Direct equivalents of current (flow rate), voltage (pressure), resistors (pipe cross section), capacitors (flexible balloons), Kirchhoff's laws etc.. I never physically built such a system -- although it seems quite straightforward -- but find the analogy most helpful to illustrate many basic concepts in electronic circuits.

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