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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 To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com 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 From: turner...@hotmail.com To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com 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. > > > -- > Don Caprio > ilv...@gmail.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to n8vem-s100+...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to n8vem-s100+...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to n8vem-s100+...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. |