What were your first steps into creating?

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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DAB over 7 years ago +6

Back when I was in high school, yes the old dark ages, I found a company that sent out monthly science kits for about 5 USD. I worked through each kit to learn electronics, mechanics, optics, and even…
Fred27 over 7 years ago +5

The thing that got me back into electronics was the Netduino. (It's a .NET Microframework based microcontroller. Not a product I would recommend now, but suited me as a gateway drug then.) The thing that…
anuag_ashim over 7 years ago +5

For me it was the 89C51 and PIC micro-controller programming. They were very popular in the university

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gecoz over 7 years ago

What intrigued me was the discovery of the Ham Radio and the CB world back in the 80's! Getting your hands dirty trying to tweak electronic components and build your "special" antennas to try to go that extra mile was inspiring. I spent a little fortune buying Radio and Electronics magazines! I'm sure I must still have some old magazine stored at my mum's...

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gecoz over 7 years ago

What intrigued me was the discovery of the Ham Radio and the CB world back in the 80's! Getting your hands dirty trying to tweak electronic components and build your "special" antennas to try to go that extra mile was inspiring. I spent a little fortune buying Radio and Electronics magazines! I'm sure I must still have some old magazine stored at my mum's...

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