whats your 1st electronic project  - Page 1
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author: uranium235
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: June 21, 2010, 11:37:00 am
content: whats your 1st electronic project that you made anyone would like to share?mine is 555 flyback driver

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 21, 2010, 12:35:55 pm
content: Gawd, that'd be more than 30 years ago...I don't quite remember.Ignoring the Tandy 50-in-1 kit which was my first electronics kit, my first PCB based project was probably a Talking Electronics kit, the 3 digit frequency counter if memory serves correctly.Dave.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 21, 2010, 01:25:32 pm
content: It depends on what you mean?My first was a light bulb and a battery.My first proper circuit, with semiconductors, was an astable multivibrator.

author: Time
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 21, 2010, 01:56:10 pm
content: MSP430 based GPS guided RC car

author: slburris
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 21, 2010, 01:57:51 pm
content: Don't remember my first exactly, but my parents got me one of thoseRadio Shack 200-in-1 electronic project kits, so it was probably"Experiment #1" in that book!My first "real" project was a Heathkit clock of some sort. I learneda ton about soldering and debugging in building that little clock.I really miss Heathkit.Scott

author: Strube09
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 21, 2010, 02:17:42 pm
content: Hard to remember, but the first one I am pretty sure of was a crystal radio set I got for Christmas... I wasn't able to play with it until the day was almost over.I stayed up to make it and to my disappointment I could faintly hear one channel. Guess I had high expectations at a young age.

author: marianoapp
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 21, 2010, 08:55:08 pm
content: an AM radio kit that came with a magazine

author: DavidDLC
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 21, 2010, 10:51:56 pm
content: My first project was a power supply using the old terminal block connectors. (See the attachment)

author: DavidDLC
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 21, 2010, 10:52:46 pm
content: Actually that is not a picture of my project, but just to show the terminal block connectors used (Pointed by the arrow)

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 21, 2010, 11:47:47 pm
content: FM transmitter 1W

author: KTP
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 22, 2010, 12:33:11 am
content: trying to convert a Radio Shack armatron robot arm to computer control (a CoCo 2) back in the early 1980s when I was only 10 (I remember there was a magazine article describing the process). I never finished it :-(

author: ThunderSqueak
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 22, 2010, 02:11:32 am
content: It was when I was 9 years old, I had my apendix rupture and the infection spread and put me in the hospital for 11 and a half months. While I was there in bed my aunt brought me an electronics kit. It was some no name brand that I had to assemble the breadboard by actually inserting little clips into the backside and assembling the variable capacitor and resistor etc. On the plus side I learned how everything functioned right away. The first project I did in it was make an LED light upThe book in that kit was much like the radioshack one that Dave showed on the blog.First thing I purchased when I got out of the hospital was an analog multimeter from radioshack XDlovely memories

author: horzza
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 22, 2010, 11:41:44 am
content: A two transistor, two LED flasher from a Dick Smith kit. Since actually getting into the hobby though; a 555 based PWM.

author: johnboxall
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 22, 2010, 11:46:07 am
content: Quote from: horzza on June 22, 2010, 11:41:44 amAhh the Funway series. I remember the excitement when book 3 was published - "Every project uses an IC!"Sadly that series is being runout now.