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What were your first steps into creating?

cstanton

 

Mine was when I first visited Leeds Hackspace, and I worked on a system to monitor the temperature/humidity of the Hackspace - how did you get started?

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  • A book on electricity and magnetism a battery, a length of wire and some torch bulbs as a child.

    A meccano robot, watching Professor Heinz Wolf, tomorrows world, and I'm sure there was a tv series in the UK called video and chips, but I can't find a reference to it.

    I think there were other kids tv programs with robots in like small wonder and there was one involving computers and kids.

    And in the UK we had the electronics kits, and then the LM3909 and 555 timer example circuits in the Maplin catalogue. 

    It all went down hill from there. image

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  • A book on electricity and magnetism a battery, a length of wire and some torch bulbs as a child.

    A meccano robot, watching Professor Heinz Wolf, tomorrows world, and I'm sure there was a tv series in the UK called video and chips, but I can't find a reference to it.

    I think there were other kids tv programs with robots in like small wonder and there was one involving computers and kids.

    And in the UK we had the electronics kits, and then the LM3909 and 555 timer example circuits in the Maplin catalogue. 

    It all went down hill from there. image

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  • in reply to danielw

    the Maplin catalogue.

    Daniel, you are so right there. This was mentioned in the past, but there have been many of us who learnt some of our electronics from the Maplin Catalogue and it inspired us to make stuff. I used to browse the IC section scrutinising the circuit schematics - gleaming information and knowledge along the way.

     

    Rod