(Mine was branded Braun, not Raytheon. not sure if that because the Braun branded versions got sold in Australia, or if dad got it in Germany or Europe - he travelled there for work quite a bit during his career.)
It had a great 10-year-old friendly manual, which I can't seem to fond anywhere, except for this pic:
Ah, nostalgia. I'd drool over the Heathkit catalogs as a kid. I still have a Van Alstine-modified Dynaco PAT 5 preamp with walnut case that's been the heart of my audio system for almost 40 years. Absolutely trouble free all these years and still sounds great.
I LOVED these kits. I could only afford a handful but I would order manuals and build many in my mind.
Later on, I built countless S-100 computer cards when I had a paying job, and that led to other jobs. I never took a course in electronics and computers.
A far cry from Arduino and RaspberryPI, but interfaces get you (often) into that "old" world of discrete analog parts and sensors.
As a young kid (pre teen probably) I had one of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectron#/media/File:Egger-Lect...
(Mine was branded Braun, not Raytheon. not sure if that because the Braun branded versions got sold in Australia, or if dad got it in Germany or Europe - he travelled there for work quite a bit during his career.)
It had a great 10-year-old friendly manual, which I can't seem to fond anywhere, except for this pic:
https://www.radiofundgrube.de/bilder/expkasten/zoom/braun_le...
Ah, nostalgia. I'd drool over the Heathkit catalogs as a kid. I still have a Van Alstine-modified Dynaco PAT 5 preamp with walnut case that's been the heart of my audio system for almost 40 years. Absolutely trouble free all these years and still sounds great.
I LOVED these kits. I could only afford a handful but I would order manuals and build many in my mind.
Later on, I built countless S-100 computer cards when I had a paying job, and that led to other jobs. I never took a course in electronics and computers.
A far cry from Arduino and RaspberryPI, but interfaces get you (often) into that "old" world of discrete analog parts and sensors.
Another related nostalgic site
For Electronic project Kits - like X in 1 Electronic Projecy kits, where X is some number from about 10 to a few 100 .....
https://web.archive.org/web/20260221183623/http://www.zpag.n...
OR the direct link -( Im not sure if Hacker news would smash the site .... ) http://www.zpag.net/Electroniques/Kit/Electronic_Kit.htm
Elenco is still around. I just bought a XP-720K linear power supply kit last week.
Dad and I built a variety of Heathkit and EICO stuff way back when, from oscilloscopes to signal generators to whatever.