[Elecraft] OT: The day I found out I was going to be an engineer

[jerry]

On 2023-09-15 17:31, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> I was 8 years old.

*** I've been trying to interest my 9 year old in electronics & radio.  
Am leveraging his love for making things.  Which
mostly is alas focused on Legos.

    When the COVID hit, I immediately got on Amazon and ordered the 
biggest, most elaborate "snap circuits" kit.  It was sort
of a bust.  He did a few of them and lost interest.  The trouble with 
snap circuits is that the elaborate ones - the ones that
do interesting things - depend on ICs that they have packaged up.  Black 
boxes that hide all the fun.  Also, for some strange
reason, Snap Circuits doesn't use schematics in their workbooks.

    I like the old Radio Shack multi-project kits better, and I got him 
the last-biggest one that they made.  Actual
schematics.

    I had him build a Velleman kit that I had laying around.  He was 
scared of the soldering iron.  I said "just don't touch
the metal part" :).

                     - Jerry, KF6VB