Re: OT :Radio Shack

[nick markowitz <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 21, 9:13=A0pm, Effenpig1 <dirtyspicev...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Dec 21, 10:34=A0am, "RockyTSquirrel" <gafa@/nospam/usa.com> wrote:
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> >http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/category/305/Kits/1.html
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> > You might have to rush shipping =A0but =A0they got a few...
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> > "Effenpig1" <dirtyspicev...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > When did radio shack stop making those little circuit board project
> > > kits?
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> > > I went to get my kid a few for Christmas and they didn't have any, th=
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> > > guy at the checkout said they don't make them anymore. Maybe too many
> > > kids burnt their houses down with the soldering iron. I was going to
> > > get him one of those battery operated "cold" soldering irons. They di=
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> > > have a pretty neat kit with a solar panel and a few different project=
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> > > for it. No soldering though.
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> > > I figured I better start getting him interested in electronics early,
> > > in a few years He'll be old enough to go out on jobs during the
> > > summer.
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> I'm going to see how he does with the solder-less kits first. I
> actually did find and bookmark a few similar sites last night. There's
> a company called Elenco that makes some pretty neat kits. If he does
> good with the smaller solder kits I'll probably get him one of the
> robot kits.
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> When I was a kid my Dad and I built little telegraph boards with
> buzzers and would sit in the living room talking in morse code. He
> also was into ham radio, I still remember all the different antennas
> all over the house.

Theres a company called Ramsey which makes neat kits too