OT: Electronics learner kit?

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My daughter will be a high school junior next year. Over the
summer she is wanting to play with electronics in preparation
for an electronics engineering degree. I thought about brute-
forcing our way through simple Ohm's Law stuff and then I
thought I'd use a simple radio circuit to work with amplification
and filters, and then do some simple 7400 digital stuff, but
it will take me a lot of time to crank that all out from
scratch. In the summer I don't have that kind of time.

Where can I find a good electronics learning kit?

Thank you, Michael
 
I got this one:
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=28-280
for my son. It looks pretty comprehensive.

Zspider wrote:

My daughter will be a high school junior next year. Over the
summer she is wanting to play with electronics in preparation
for an electronics engineering degree. I thought about brute-
forcing our way through simple Ohm's Law stuff and then I
thought I'd use a simple radio circuit to work with amplification
and filters, and then do some simple 7400 digital stuff, but
it will take me a lot of time to crank that all out from
scratch. In the summer I don't have that kind of time.

Where can I find a good electronics learning kit?

Thank you, Michael
--
--Ray Andraka, P.E.
President, the Andraka Consulting Group, Inc.
401/884-7930 Fax 401/884-7950
email ray@andraka.com
http://www.andraka.com

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, 1759
 
Ray;

this site is very good on the discussion of electronics and would be a good
intro tool to help with the project work.
it's explanations are very accurate:
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/

this one seems to be the same:
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/electricCircuits/index.htm

here's another one that's cool:
http://www.interq.or.jp/japan/se-inoue/e_menu.htm

-e-man


Ray Andraka wrote:

I got this one:
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=28-280
for my son. It looks pretty comprehensive.

Zspider wrote:

My daughter will be a high school junior next year. Over the
summer she is wanting to play with electronics in preparation
for an electronics engineering degree. I thought about brute-
forcing our way through simple Ohm's Law stuff and then I
thought I'd use a simple radio circuit to work with amplification
and filters, and then do some simple 7400 digital stuff, but
it will take me a lot of time to crank that all out from
scratch. In the summer I don't have that kind of time.

Where can I find a good electronics learning kit?

Thank you, Michael

--
--Ray Andraka, P.E.
President, the Andraka Consulting Group, Inc.
401/884-7930 Fax 401/884-7950
email ray@andraka.com
http://www.andraka.com

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, 1759
 
Thanks, Ray and e-man, for the suggestions. The Radio Shack
Electronics Learning Lab looks like a great place to start,
and I will look over all the web sites you recommended. I
found the Radio Shack Learning Lab available at two places
in Bloomington. I'll pick it up next time I make it into
town. I'm hoping that the whole thing will be a fun exper-
ience for her.

Thanks again, Michael
 

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