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What was your first circuit? Do you still remember it?
pknoe3lh:
When I was around 8 I think (... don't remember)
I saw a game:
http://www.kreativekiste.de/elektro/dem-heissen-draht-auf-der-spur
Next day (after terrorise my mother) we went to the local electrician to buy all the parts needed to rebuild this game 8)
Thats how I started :)
brucehoult:
--- Quote from: spudboy488 on July 27, 2017, 11:34:06 am ---Similar to other posts, I started with a Radio Shack 65 in 1 kit. The first circuit was probably the first one in the book. The first one I remember though was a crystal radio. It helped to have a 50KW station 10 miles from the house.
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Yes, I lived much too far in the countryside, surrounded by hills, for a crystal set to work. A two valve radio had enough trouble pulling a signal! TV reception was more snow than picture, and on summer evenings it was quite common for a TV station in Australia (!! 2500+ km away) to overpower our local TV translator south of Kaikohe in New Zealand.
daveyk:
--- Quote from: kakabouras on July 25, 2017, 01:45:50 pm ---A crystal radio receiver that could pick up a single local MW station during the evenings only :)
I was at the 4th grade at school then.
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I remember doing a crystal radio using a corroded razor blade and a little whisker wire mounted above it and dragged acrossed It until a good "diode" junction occurred. That had to be early 1970's.
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Hypernova:
Sticking mom's hairpin into the 110V socket. The resulting sparks gave me little rectangular blisters all over my palm for a week.
First actual circuit was the dicksmith electronic dice kit during electronics class in intermediate school. My first time soldering so two LEDs were stuck at on.
Red Squirrel:
--- Quote from: Hypernova on July 28, 2017, 01:13:19 am ---Sticking mom's hairpin into the 110V socket. The resulting sparks gave me little rectangular blisters all over my palm for a week.
First actual circuit was the dicksmith electronic dice kit during electronics class in intermediate school. My first time soldering so two LEDs were stuck at on.
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Hahaha. Suposedly when I was a toddler I crawled and pulled on the door/light switch with my mouth when my mom was loading groceries into the fridge. It broke and I got a shock on my face and was all black. I wish she had taken a picture of that, but this is before the "someone needs help but let me take a pic first!" era. :-DD
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