As a kid, after my 150-in-1 electronics kit from Radio Shack, next was a digital bedside clock from Jameco. Not long after I bought a computer in kit form, a Sinclair ZX-80. It was great fun and experience. Now I have grandchildren asking about electronics and I have been wondering how to get them introduced. You have given me some ideas and inspiration. Thank you Jazzy!
Enjoyed following along as you identified and assembled the kit - your young hands are much steadier than mine. Thanks for allowing me to relive some of my Radio Shack kit memories from back in the 70's and 80's. There are a lot of older electronics books that contain plans to make a lot of electronics kits archived on the internet for those who enjoy starting from scratch and ordering components and then digging out the "egg cartons" to sort the components into before assembly.
Those kinds of kits are great ways into electronics as a young person. I used to buy lots of those from a Danish firm named Josty Kit. Actually still got a functioning linear lab power supply that were from such a kit a long time ago. Great videos for all the younger people out there, but also interesting and nostalgic for me and others with a little more time now than I had before. Great channel and you have a very pleasant and lively voice, a definitive big plus in the era of AI-dubbing. Thanks for sharing with us! Will definitely order some kits myself to have fun with.
Neat job, and nice little kit. A little FM transmitter is useful to have and I use one for streaming music to my old Hacker and other radios. Great video, thanks!
In 1972 a friend of mine and I built a similar transmitter. We connected a tuned antenna to it. We connected a cassette player to it and jumped on our bicycles to see how far we could pick it up. After 14 km (8,7 miles), we raced back, very scared and switched it off. We never switched it on again.😂. We both ended up as technicians in electronics.
Hi Jane, around 30 yrs ago i made a few of these ( & still have some in the workshop) kits from a company called pan tec, at the time i worked in a factory & i used to place them in random places including the toilets, in other departments in the factory we tuned into them & had to guess where they were locate. It was great fun being a teen in the 1980's in a factory.
Swap that antenna wire out for something about 2.5 feet long (1/4 wavelength at 98 MHz = 30 inches) and you'll get a much bigger signal. With that included short bit of wire, that signal reaches about 20 feet. With a 30 inch wire, it'll probably exceed 100 feet of transmit distance. (Yes, I built that same kit for fun.)
Jazzy I'm with you, not a fan of the lad free stuff, unfortunately working ion British industry we have to use except for specific clients. At least I can use real solder for stuff I build :)
That's 5% which was the best super-common resistor years ago when I first got into electronics. 10% and even 20% were common. You could get 1%, but they were harder to come by, and not commonly used.
see, Im thinking on having something like this. for post apocaliptic scenarios. I wonder how much power we need for a broader range. I know its nerdy and tin foil hat what I said.
As a kid, after my 150-in-1 electronics kit from Radio Shack, next was a digital bedside clock from Jameco. Not long after I bought a computer in kit form, a Sinclair ZX-80. It was great fun and experience. Now I have grandchildren asking about electronics and I have been wondering how to get them introduced. You have given me some ideas and inspiration. Thank you Jazzy!
Enjoyed following along as you identified and assembled the kit - your young hands are much steadier than mine. Thanks for allowing me to relive some of my Radio Shack kit memories from back in the 70's and 80's. There are a lot of older electronics books that contain plans to make a lot of electronics kits archived on the internet for those who enjoy starting from scratch and ordering components and then digging out the "egg cartons" to sort the components into before assembly.
Those kinds of kits are great ways into electronics as a young person. I used to buy lots of those from a Danish firm named Josty Kit. Actually still got a functioning linear lab power supply that were from such a kit a long time ago.
Great videos for all the younger people out there, but also interesting and nostalgic for me and others with a little more time now than I had before.
Great channel and you have a very pleasant and lively voice, a definitive big plus in the era of AI-dubbing. Thanks for sharing with us!
Will definitely order some kits myself to have fun with.
Neat job, and nice little kit. A little FM transmitter is useful to have and I use one for streaming music to my old Hacker and other radios. Great video, thanks!
In 1972 a friend of mine and I built a similar transmitter. We connected a tuned antenna to it. We connected a cassette player to it and jumped on our bicycles to see how far we could pick it up. After 14 km (8,7 miles), we raced back, very scared and switched it off. We never switched it on again.😂. We both ended up as technicians in electronics.
Hi Jane, around 30 yrs ago i made a few of these ( & still have some in the workshop) kits from a company called pan tec, at the time i worked in a factory & i used to place them in random places including the toilets, in other departments in the factory we tuned into them & had to guess where they were locate. It was great fun being a teen in the 1980's in a factory.
Good to see you having fun 🎉
Great kit, great video!
I like that PCB holder, will try and find one like it
Very cool ending! Love your channel! 😄
Brilliant and a fun video
Swap that antenna wire out for something about 2.5 feet long (1/4 wavelength at 98 MHz = 30 inches) and you'll get a much bigger signal. With that included short bit of wire, that signal reaches about 20 feet. With a 30 inch wire, it'll probably exceed 100 feet of transmit distance.
(Yes, I built that same kit for fun.)
I have found often that the ceramic caps are bad, as in when I test them, they come up "unknown or no device" Why is that IDK
Jazzy I'm with you, not a fan of the lad free stuff, unfortunately working ion British industry we have to use except for specific clients. At least I can use real solder for stuff I build :)
Lad free is ok?
The resistors aren't very good. Some of them are way off what they should be. 95K for a 100K is crap. Hope it works.
That's 5% which was the best super-common resistor years ago when I first got into electronics. 10% and even 20% were common. You could get 1%, but they were harder to come by, and not commonly used.
see, Im thinking on having something like this.
for post apocaliptic scenarios.
I wonder how much power we need for a broader range.
I know its nerdy and tin foil hat what I said.
I hate lead free solder as well. Its awful. It doesn't flow.