Post Av6WKT8ryaUnXMs4LA by emeb@society.oftrolls.com
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(DIR) Post #Av6QgIjikGg1uW8R2O by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-13T23:19:41Z
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I buy a lot of cheap "DIY Electronics" Kits on Aliexpress put them together, the more confusing the more fun it is. But I write up better instructions and observations so if students want to build the same kit they can. Some kits I do not tell anyone about because they are terrible. But really? Most of them are great. If you don't mind reading a datasheet or doing some detective work.But I think blogging about "Kit Adventures" might be interesting.It's amazing the fun you can have.
(DIR) Post #Av6R5rmLazYbpeYPgW by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-06-13T23:24:18Z
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@futurebird I followed kit adventures for, you know, kittens, like Pica, and now I'm confused?Is this goiing to be taken over by ants again?
(DIR) Post #Av6RIA938WU4Gj2IrY by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-06-13T23:26:30Z
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@futurebird Take video and put them up on YouTube.
(DIR) Post #Av6RUyzHvm3DQfaEWO by emeb@society.oftrolls.com
2025-06-13T23:28:46Z
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@futurebird Have you bought anything from Aliexpress since they killed de-minimus? I've heard some rather un-fun stories and have been holding off buying from them.
(DIR) Post #Av6S8DvALHOp2RMnNg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-13T23:35:56Z
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@llewelly "Is this goiing to be taken over by ants again?"I mean... what do you expect?
(DIR) Post #Av6SDeciUTshIoKJua by d67c829441060e934b10627daebd148bfb95ce2a866b8ce0c3fc275fa0ef3edf@mostr.pub
2025-06-13T23:19:58.000Z
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(DIR) Post #Av6SDfpA1hQh1h9lwm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-13T23:36:53Z
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@d67c829441060e934b10627daebd148bfb95ce2a866b8ce0c3fc275fa0ef3edf This too is part of the fun.
(DIR) Post #Av6SUkseTqSfdBw0um by 0xF21D@infosec.exchange
2025-06-13T23:39:59Z
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@futurebird I say go for it. It would be kind of like iFixit. Maybe iBuildIt?
(DIR) Post #Av6U4wzD355dYVpDMW by annmygdala@todon.nl
2025-06-13T23:57:42Z
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@futurebird I'd love to learn about any kits you'd recommend :)
(DIR) Post #Av6VoDiVn6doQkAIE4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-14T00:17:09Z
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@emeb "killed de-minimus" ???
(DIR) Post #Av6W66PNhdHqyYkAsK by emeb@society.oftrolls.com
2025-06-14T00:20:21Z
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@futurebird Small value packages imported from China are no longer allowed thru customs with no charge as they were prior to May 2025, so anything you buy from Aliexpress is likely to have a tariff due. On top of that Aliexpress is now not using USPS to deliver packages in many areas and instead is relying on a sketchy gig-worker outfit called Uniuni that is super unreliable.
(DIR) Post #Av6WH0nAvLzGk74ioa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-14T00:22:22Z
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@emeb Ah yes. I have and things are not as dirt cheap as they once were. But the prices were so low that even with them going up like 50 percent it's not that bad. $4 vs. $6 is the difference.
(DIR) Post #Av6WKT8ryaUnXMs4LA by emeb@society.oftrolls.com
2025-06-14T00:22:57Z
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@futurebird Cool - that's good news. Maybe I'll risk it.
(DIR) Post #Av6X5t5JL8Xtbhojy4 by nerb@techhub.social
2025-06-14T00:31:31Z
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@futurebird It's not as cheap as those kits but this one proved to be a lot of fun for my niece.She is 14 and hopefully will stay a nerd.I lent tools and test equipment but she built and solved it herself.https://www.canaduino.ca/product/electronic-education-diy-kit-the-broken-code-lock-troubleshooting-project/
(DIR) Post #Av6ZmFNh23eEpTk3Yu by oheso@ieji.de
2025-06-14T01:01:32Z
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@futurebird I'd love to see your blog.
(DIR) Post #Av6Zrv8dCwkhmhOzxI by trainguyrom@techhub.social
2025-06-14T01:02:37Z
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@futurebird as someone who enjoys watching Big Clive tear down and reverse engineer terrible and dangerous electronics, I would be all over this, plus my oldest is getting close to electronics kid age (although let's be real, I wanna do some electronics kits too!)
(DIR) Post #Av762NH0ebgYTOLjlo by th@social.v.st
2025-06-14T07:02:59Z
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@futurebird have you seen the boardgame "City of Six Moons"? the instruction manual is in an alien language and the game is figuring out the rules of the game. https://hollandspiele.com/products/city-of-six-moons
(DIR) Post #Av7Iqf5jsZmVfFp6GG by moof@cupoftea.social
2025-06-14T09:26:34Z
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@futurebird this sounds amazing, and the blog would be fun to read
(DIR) Post #Av7R3V4TFI2Jz5rYFE by dragonarchitect@rubber.social
2025-06-14T10:58:34Z
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@futurebird ooooooh...
(DIR) Post #AvP8meyAtBsvQo16Bc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-22T23:58:39Z
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@nerb This looks really nice.
(DIR) Post #AvPALMP40gW9wFhiue by andypiper@macaw.social
2025-06-23T00:16:05Z
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@futurebird sounds like fun!
(DIR) Post #AvPG8qGsFZ6eX5HtUu by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-06-23T01:20:56Z
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@futurebird do you have thoughts you'd care to share about clones of the Radio Shack "N-in-1 Electronics Kit"? (They were basically a breadboard with components you connected by pinching wires into springs.) It looks like "snap circuits" are the thing to get now, but those seem less appealing.I started looking around, and it looks like Elenco did at some point sell a 130-in-1 electronics kit (https://www.robotshop.com/products/130-in-1-electronics-playground?qd=ee8c0cc016950391e32ba9fde57f84ab). But surely there must be other kits like this.
(DIR) Post #AvPH721ffuR0MesRvs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-23T01:31:58Z
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@trurl I had one of these that was my brothers and everything was missing so I couldn't make it do anything. I think the sense of mystery about how it was meant to work is something I'm still trying to work through to this day.
(DIR) Post #AvPIHGxz55pRYGbFWi by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-06-23T01:45:00Z
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@futurebird @trurl i had two of them, the 60-in-One and 100-in-One. there was a project book that came with each one which would give you numbered wiring sequences, a schematic, and a wiring diagram for each circuit in the book. the number on the kit refers to the number of projects in the book, many of which are basic knowledge for building larger circuits such as op-amps, flip-flops, sensors, signals, digital logic if the kit included an IC package, serial and parallel, etc, as well as fun stuff like a crystal radio.
(DIR) Post #AvQT8eVyVEJl0qXUw4 by felis_catus_domesticus@beige.party
2025-06-23T15:21:24Z
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@futurebird cool idea but niche appeal on it's best day.electronics is a very niche hobby.