150 in 1 electronic project kit manual

The Solar Power Lab kit is very similar to the project kits above but includes four solar cells to help power the projects. There are twenty-five projects one can build with this one. Catalog number there is no date on box or instruction manual but I would guess the early s.

One must first build this kit by putting all the components and spring connectors into a cardboard "workbench". I found this kit at the annualBooks are Fun sale at work. And here is an old Electronics Project Kit by an unknown manufacturer. Very much like the Science Fair kits above this one uses numbered spring connectors. The base is clear plexiglas and there are instructions for ten projects.

The kit has no clue to date or manufacturer. And another Electronic Project Kit, this one from Lionel the train folks. This kit's manual is dated and it appears to be called the Mark II Kit.

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Lots of springs and wires with a few PC boards for the ICs and other components. The company that makes them — and other similar labs — appears to be Maxitronix. We often refer to these kits as analogous to FPGAs — a bunch of uncommitted components you can wire up to make different things. The spring terminals are sort of a macro version of a common breadboard.

That exact kit is what started my down this dark path years ago. It still has a home with me for the nostalgia. One night Mom and Dad sent me to my bedroom as punishment, and I was really pissed, so I brought out my in-one electronics kit and built a VHF oscillator and tuned it to the TV channel I could hear them watching downstairs.

That was in the days of rooftop antennas, and when the oscillator was tuned to the right frequency the TV downstairs got a ton of noise and became impossible to watch. They changed channels, and I could hear the different program, so I retuned the oscillator to the new channel and that one became unwatchable as well.

On and on they kept trying to watch any channel and it would crap out after a minute or so. Eventually they gave up and went to bed. I never told them about it. My parents have since passed on, and I eventually confessed to my siblings. They thought it was hilarious. Unfortunately, my family also had a farm and a mortgage, and rates back then were brutal. Because money was tight, we ended up selling the Commodore to the local library my computer was their very first library computer!

My 6th birthday was coming up, and they told me I could use it to get whatever I wanted…. I chose a in-one Electronics and magnetism kit. In all honestly, it was about as basic as these kits can get… I quickly outgrew it, but soon had an opportunity to get the in-one. As time went on, the kits became redundant and unnecessary. I cannibalized them for parts in grander projects. The remains of those kits are long gone, save for a component here or there that might be in a project I kept around.

Out of nostalgia, I found the exact types of kits I had on ebay, and bought them, so I could have a reminder of how I got started. Schematics where based on electronics magazines from the local library. I managed to get most old copies every time the library cleared old magazines. I used to have one of those as a kid as well. Same in-1 as in the article. Graduated from there to the Dick Smith Funway book series. Did a bit of electronics in high school as well they offered it as a course in the school I was at but then moved completly over to the world of computers although I am actually thinking of getting back into electronics in the form of a microcontroller board to run some lights for a LEGO model I want to make.

That was the second one I had. My kids are still a bit young for that sort of a kit, but I often wonder what a modern equivalent would be be. Not even close to the old kits. As stupid as it sounds, in a lot of ways microcontrollers have created a dark age for hobby electronics. The newer version, Electronic Playground made by Elenco. I know there have been complaints about some of the texts in these kits not doing a good job of explaining things.

It had a nice selection of parts, protected LEDs, and my favorite is the multi-voltage breadboard with power rails for 1. The true selling point for me was the manual, hand-written by Forrest Mimms. My daughter has picked it up now to get in shape for the Science Olympiad. I used his Transistor Projects series as my jumping off point.

I never got one of the in-1 labs, but my first circuit ever was his FET touch switch project. I was 14 at the time, and had to fund my adventures with paper route money. They seemed to always have 3 pages up front explaining the components and describing their basic af functions. The project pages gave a brief rundown on the function of the circuit you were to build and sometimes variations of resistors to wire in for different effects but really did not explain in a way that led to one devising their own circuits.

The last few pages were always for project notes. I had a book called Kids America that had the toilet paper tube radio in it that really got me going. With the kits I just did the wiring numbers mostly. Later on when I got my first breadboard was when the actual design and building of circuits began and I kinda think I understand why as an adult.

The RS kits were hard to really visualize how the components were interconnected under that spaghetti of wires and springs imho. The breadboard was much more logical. I guess if anything tho the RS kits let me lose fear about messing up while working on electronics. Tree of Knowledge now Elenco electronic kits were absolute garbage.

I hope every one of those kits gets burned and fed to sharks to make them dumber and meaner lol. One of my prized possessions is a Philips Electronic Experiments Box from the s. I think they were mostly popular in the Netherlands where I come from and Germany where they were made.

Instead of having the parts in a fixed place like the in-1, you had plastic boards with holes in a grid pattern, and you would put paper with basically a life size version of the schematic on top, punch holes where the junctions were, insert weird-paperclip-like springs from the bottom and put somewhat-more-regular round springs over the top. Then you would mount parts and wires to match the schematic and you ended up with e. They even had a box with a cathode ray tube to make an oscilloscope or a black and white TV.

A camera module was planned but never released. There are various websites and even some videos of the TV online. Had it as a child and recently came across a sealed one for next to nothing. I must admit I never really liked the cumbersome and quite unstable spring system. Tat was cool. I noticed the CRT project in a Plexiglas case. It would of been out of my price range as a kid, but someone else to drool over.

I had in-1 instead. Some local clone probably. May be a pot also. I had the in-1 kit too! Got given it when I was 6 years old. I too had that kit as the in 1 was too expensive. From that kit I learned that a regular germanium diode could function as an LED at least once. There were some other kits over the years like the crystal radio set and more wet chemistry even though I did do a little spectroscopy with a Probe magazine design. Wow, brings back some memories there.

Closest one to me is about an hour each way. Wish I still had the in-1 from my youth. I remember jumping right to the AM radio, one of the most complex projects, and the thrill of getting it working. No trip to to the home of my formative years is ever complete without a trip to American Science and Surplus.

I go with my wife now, usually taking my sisters kids with us on family trips. Much farther down the South side of mke right?

My art friends always dug up cool. I had one of these as a kid, and I built circuit after circuit on it. I really did learn quite a lot about electronics that gave me insight when I got to college and even after that. I bought a kit when my daughter was about the right age, but she never really embraced it.

But of course, the world had fewer distractions before the Internet. I had this exact model. Best Christmas present i ever received. I was lucky enough to have one similar to this when I was a young teen, but prior to that I had an even cooler to my young mind set that came as a plastic base that allowed one to plug various small modules into.

These all contained the same types of components that were in other kits, such as resistors, capacitors, and transistors. One advantage to this type of kit is that when one was done making a circuit, the printing on the modules made up a circuit diagram. I had a lot of fun playing with it and learning from it, and looking back I wish I had kept it. I had a smaller version when I was 8 or 9 and when I saw the front panel of this in the shop I knew I had to have it, I wish I still had it now.

Ah, the memories. Where I lived in Amsterdam we had a Tandy just around the corner. And when I walked by, I stopped to look at the various electronic kits in the shop window.

For my birthday I got a Solar Power lab kit with, I think, 25 projects. I was so happy and did spend a lot of time with it. Later I got a in-1 Elektronic Project Kit. Much bigger and in a wooden box.

Years later I studied electrical engineering. Did not wan to rebuild anything after that was working. The arduino of its time? That brings back memories. I had the Science Fair in 1 kit. Quite exciting at the time. More than just sound effects and radio circuits, actual logic circuits with output to display unfortunately limited to single digit could be built.

The in 1 kit was certainly slick looking, but I always though it would be better if it had more 7 segment displays. Was a wonderful benchtop power supply for years. Just a few months ago, Dave Jones showed that one of those kits is still useful for getting children interested in electronics:. Our local community college used a variation on this as part of the labwork for its basic electronics classes — think of components like these, but with each mounted on its own board still spring connectors, though.

Duncan — adventures in electronics — was what really got me into it, but the precursor was a pcb based kit with components on preformed plastic holders that could be bolted on to form simple circuits.