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Holiday Gift List Giveaway - Raspberry Pi Essentials

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Raspberry Pi Essentials Giveaway for Pi Enthusiasts

element14 Presents  |  Engineer and Maker Wishlist

 

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As DJ says, this is the season of gift-giving!  So element14 has prepared this kit of parts to give to you.

THREE chance to win! Three kits of all the parts listed below will be awarded to the element14 members with the best stories (entered in the comments below) about the best electronics-related gift you ever received and what was so great about it?  Was it a special tool set that you needed to up your skills?  Was it a Raspberry Pi?  Was it something you took apart as a child just to see how it worked?  Share your story for a chance to win!

  • Contest Opens: 18-November-2019
  • Contest Closes: 30-December-2019
  • Winners Announced: 11-January-2020

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What we're giving away. . .

 

Product NameManufacturerQuantityBuy KitBuy Kit
PRO ELEC Portable HD 4k 30fps Waterproof Action Sports Cam with WiFiPro Elec1Buy NowBuy Now
PIMORONIAdd-On Board, Speaker Phat For Raspberry Pi Zero, Integrated DAC, Speaker and AmplifierPimoroni1Buy NowBuy Now
Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop KitRaspberry Pi1Buy NowBuy Now

 

Winners! We need your details!

Else I'm going to have to choose someone else..

Congratulations to ,   and , once has your details or you've notified them that you've updated your details on your profile we'll have the necessaries checked and hopefully the prizes sent out to you as soon as we can image

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  • I can't seem to find a picture of the kit I got as a gift, but it was sort of like this

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    except it was much blockier - all the pieces were either rectangles or squares about 1"x1" or 1"x2". It wasn't super complex, but it got me started down the path of electronics being interesting. This was back in the late 1970s, so part of why it is hard to find a pictures image It wasn't complicated, didn't have a lot of stuff in it, but it got me started.

     

    It was sort of nice for being so simple - pieces clicked and locked together, you could try different things. Back then a photo sensor that made a buzzer go off when you covered it felt like a big deal image and it taught how a transistor actually works, how the difference between wiring in series vs parallel affects voltage + amperage, etc.

     

    Saved up money doing lawns and such, and at 13 bought myself a TI 99/4A, then a C64, amiga, etc etc. I shudder to think how much i've spent on electronics in my life, mostly for entertainment. I've got a raspberry pi running recallbox in a full size cabinet, among other things

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