Comment Re:Cool, no more "resistors on springs" (Score 0) 169
I tool started off with one of those "discrete components on springs" sets.
Very much like this I imagine.
Desperately trying (and failing) to remember the name of something else that turned up while at school (198x, in the UK). It was a series of interconnecting small PCBs which were all open - not cased in or anything. (Low voltages only - this was educational!) You connected them together to make longer and longer chains, and had wires to jump across boards if needed.
The big advantage (educationally) was that being open you could see how it was put together physically as well as logically. The big disadvantage was the size - with each little PCB having the components, connectors and a little schematic for that part, it was easy to construct something that was longer than the table.
Very much like this I imagine.
Desperately trying (and failing) to remember the name of something else that turned up while at school (198x, in the UK). It was a series of interconnecting small PCBs which were all open - not cased in or anything. (Low voltages only - this was educational!) You connected them together to make longer and longer chains, and had wires to jump across boards if needed.
The big advantage (educationally) was that being open you could see how it was put together physically as well as logically. The big disadvantage was the size - with each little PCB having the components, connectors and a little schematic for that part, it was easy to construct something that was longer than the table.
