RE: [N8VEM-S100:5086] Micro Computers your youngsters

Ohh, Forrest Mims!!! He's a very good writer! I've been reading his material for years!!!!
He did all the Transistor projects Volumes 1 to 4 for Radio Shack.
He also did a very helpful article in Popular Electronics call Microcomputer Microcourse.
It was my first lesson in microprocessors and it taught me a lot! Thank you Forrest Mims III.

You can find this popular electronics article (and others) from Rich Cini's website.
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/mags.htm

Jim, Thank you very much for this link, I am going give it a good read.

Cheers,
Josh

From: Jco...@cfl.rr.com
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Subject: RE: [N8VEM-S100:5086] Micro Computers your youngsters
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:40:35 -0400

Check this out

http://www.files.jedijf.com/%28electronics%29%20-%20Forrest%20Mims%20-%20Radio%20Shack%20-%2011%20vols/

Jim

From: n8vem...@googlegroups.com [mailto:n8vem...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tabor
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Subject: Re: [N8VEM-S100:5083] Micro Computers your youngsters

>> The next thing I remember doing was building circuits from Forrest Mimms "Transistor Circuits".

Forrest Mims is what got me into electronics. I still have 3 of his "Engineer's Mini-Notebook" series from Radio Shack; Communications Projects, Science Projects, and Basic Semiconductor Circuits

Very wonderful little books. They sold for $1.99 back in the day (still have the price sticker on one of mine), and I remember doing some of the projects at the kitchen table with my dad.

Don, if your son is just getting into soldering and electronics, I'd highly recommend picking some of these type of books up. The ones I have explain a lot of the theory, as well as present simple circuits to build.

After that, I second other folks' suggestion of PIC32-based systems. The world of PIC processors is fun, and one day I'll pic up a PIC32 -- if I ever get tired of my 8-bit PIC16 and PIC18 chips, that is!

Jon

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Crusty OMO <crus...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Don,

I'm trying to remember when I was 11... what was I into? I believe what I found most fun were devices that made light and sound and responded to light and sound. Making a bell from scratch was something. Also, those Radio Shack all in one experimenters kits were amazing. Just reading through the manual and following along. The next thing I remember doing was building circuits from Forrest Mimms "Transistor Circuits". These books were also from Radio Shack and are available on Ebay. I have a set, but it's much nicer if you have an original copy. One circuit in that book was an Electronic bird. I built it and left it in my locker at school, inside a shoe box. Some teachers had me open my locker, I led them to believe I had found a little bird. One lady teacher told me it's wrong to make them suffer, but when I opened the box to reveal a mess of wires and parts, they all laughed at the joke. I doubt such a joke would work today.

Cheers,
Josh

From: crus...@hotmail.com
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Subject: RE: [N8VEM-S100:5037] Micro Computers your youngsters
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:37:53 -0400

Hi,

The ELF kit from Lee Hart might be interesting. It's called a Membership Card
http://www.sunrise-ev.com/membershipcard.htm

It can be made to run ELF 2K firmware (which includes BASIC).

Another real nice option is Rich Cini's 6502 board. I built one up a few months ago and was really impressed with it. I only wish I had the time to play more with it.... Like Matt said, I'm up to my eyeballs fixing up and testing old 1802 stuff.

Cheers,
Josh

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Subject: RE: [N8VEM-S100:5027] Micro Computers your youngsters
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:06:41 -0400

Talk to Josh (CrustyOMO) about the barebones Elf kit. Maybe a dozen IC's, very well documented. He's up to his eyeballs in RCA 1802 stuff at the moment. There's a Google group on the 1802. They should have plans, software, reprints of the original articles.

Regards,

Matt Turner

> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:02:26 -0700
> From: ilv...@gmail.com
> To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [N8VEM-S100:5026] Micro Computers your youngsters
>
> My 11 year old son and I have been kicking around doing a
> science experiment this year based on computers. We'd like
> something simple that he can solder up and run simple program (basic)
> on a terminal. Something simply as displaying his name, counting from
> 1 to a million, make lights blink, something along that line.
>
> Obviously S100 is way beyond his ability, The Raspberry pi is an option
> but it's already assembled.
>
> Something we could breadboard and then spin up a simple PCB would be great.
>
> What do ya think? Any ideas suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
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