Electronics as a hobby

[Markymark]

Oh yeah; he's living South of the river, so he's probably dead to you.

The River Lea you mean?

 

[tyred]

You could always buy a second generation Renault Laguna and you'd quickly get very good at sorting electrical faults on it.

 

[JtB]

As a youngster, electronics was my hobby but then it stopped being fun when I did a degree in electronics.

 

[ColinJ]

As a youngster, electronics was my hobby but then it stopped being fun when I did a degree in electronics.

Ditto - The last thing I designed and built was my final year project. After that, I got into software and never did any electronics work again!

 

[slowmotion]

I started cobbling electronics together aged fourteen, purely for fun, and I'm still at it. There were brief periods when I got paid for it and it was still fun.

 

[mybike]

As an aside post. Does anyone else remember the old printed Maplin catalogues filled with kits and circuit diagrams ?

I think this is the earliest one I have:

But if my memory isn't playing tricks earlier ones had a pale blue cover with their speciality of out of spec 74xx ICs listed inside.

 

[Crackle]

I've bought a book. I've started reading about Arduino's. I'll probably buy a breadboard and stuff and my initial aim is to build a bluetooth amplifier once I think I know enough (could be a while (or never)).

 

[nickyboy]

You may as well build something useful


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTFCwKvlKZo

 

[rich p]

I've bought a book. I've started reading about Arduino's. I'll probably buy a breadboard and stuff and my initial aim is to build a bluetooth amplifier once I think I know enough (could be a while (or never)).

Crax, I think @nickyboy's got a point. Put me down for a prototype self-gratifying machine ...

 

[ColinJ]

Crax, I think @nickyboy's got a point. Put me down for a prototype self-gratifying machine ...

Speaking of things that sound like self-gratifying machines - I made an amazing sound generator out of astable multivibrators once ...






(I actually DID! I made several circuits tuned to different frequencies and then cross-coupled different parts of them with random value capacitors. After a lot of experimentation I got the device to produce very long series of beeps and sweeping tones which could take minutes to repeat.)