[boulder.pm] Re: electronics kits

[Hank Turowski]

I was looking for the same thing myself today. I went to the Radio Shack on 
Colorado and got some great stuff. They have resister packs on sale now, 
got three of the Tech America kits with 240 resisters each for about $15 
total. I also picked up a copy of "Basic Electronics Theory" by Delton T. 
Horn. It gets knocked for typos on Amazon, but it seems good. Has simple 
experiments you can do to show examples of the theory presented by the text.

If you really just want the step by step blinking light siren stuff, they 
have that too.

And here are some places you can get kits online.
http://www.rainbowkits.com/
http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/
http://www.globalspecialties.com/ (A little more tutorial, less flash)
http://www.elenco.com/

I hope that helps.

Hank Turowski


At 11:49 2/28/2001 -0700, Walter Pienciak wrote:
>Okay,
>
>Here's a off-topic request, but somehow I'm thinking some of you
>know the answer:
>
>Where in Colorado (and the closer to Boulder the better) are there
>stores that sell "electronics kits"?  (After 2.5 years here, this
>one makes me realize how much I still don't know about the area.)
>
>I'm not talking about the "build-your-own TV" Heathkit-type thing
>(though knowing that would be cool too), but rather about the more mundane
>stuff you might expect a young teenager be tinkering with:  electronic
>sirens and mosquito repellers and stress meters and LED dice  ;^)
>You know:  that $10-$30 plastic bag with a PCB and a tangled pile
>of resistors, diodes, and capacitors . . .
>
>Walter