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What was your first circuit? Do you still remember it?
capt bullshot:
--- Quote from: KL27x on July 25, 2017, 09:42:45 pm ---I was probably 4 when I made my first circuit. Staple in the wall outlet.
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Guess it wasn't a long lasting circuit, aka short circuit ;)
brucehoult:
--- Quote from: capt bullshot on November 19, 2022, 10:13:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: KL27x on July 25, 2017, 09:42:45 pm ---I was probably 4 when I made my first circuit. Staple in the wall outlet.
--- End quote ---
Guess it wasn't a long lasting circuit, aka short circuit ;)
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Boom boom!!
(If you get the reference you're probably old. And Anglo, eh Derek?)
PixieDust:
Here's my first circuit. I did the layout, the soldering and the cutting out on my CNC machine.
hans:
My first circuit was at elementary school... the secondary school had a walk-along day, and one subject was physics.
We were given a battery and 3 light bulbs. They first showed a series connection and how you need a complete circuit to keep all bulbs lit. They then asked to rewire it that any bulb stays lit if another is unplugged. It seemed so intuitive to create a parallel circuit ;D
Many years later when I built my first PCB, it had a 555 + 4017 on it to create a LED siren light for a small electric car.
TomWinTejas:
My parents got me an electronics kit for Christmas when I was about 10 and I enjoyed playing with LEDs and buzzers. But my first real project was for extra credit in my high school physics class. I got the circuit from one of the Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebooks, the Optoelectronics one, which was an 'AM lightwave transmitter and receiver'. I recall getting some crude fiber optic cable and showing how the refractive index allows for real world benefits. Little did I know that all these years later I would be designing fiber optic networks for a career :)
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