2017 Holiday Vintage Kit Build!
Added 2017-12-25 03:13:09 +0000 UTCIt's December 25th, 1977..... You've got this cool kit and just can't wait to put it together! If you're successful, you'll have a real orange LED.... that blinks! Can you believe it?
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A flashing LED built with love. That’s why I love FranLab!
Harry Lakhaney
2018-03-01 05:15:30 +0000 UTCWonder if you could do a Heathkit resurrection? Just a thought...
Steven Knudsen
2017-12-26 17:41:20 +0000 UTCStill have my box of LEDs from back then.
Steven Knudsen
2017-12-26 17:40:52 +0000 UTCI don't think the course ever provided a 555 circuit. Instead, "blinky" things were built up by discretes... Oh, yes, just checked and the big perfboards are phenolic. Crazy
Steven Knudsen
2017-12-26 17:39:43 +0000 UTCTotally takes me back. In '77 I had just finished taking a mail-order Electronics course. I think I started in 1975, so it was pretty long. Lots of Heathkit projects that are now sadly cannibalized or gone. I still have the original very large perfboards and aluminum rails that once formed a jumpered lab.
Steven Knudsen
2017-12-26 17:37:44 +0000 UTCReminds me of my first Sinclair calculator.... thanks and Happy Christmas.
Emily Meyerding
2017-12-25 18:31:30 +0000 UTCThanks for the flashback!
2017-12-25 15:23:15 +0000 UTCWas 16 years old at the time and I used to build the Radio Shack kits and get several of the Electronics magazines.
Daniel Bingamon
2017-12-25 15:08:07 +0000 UTCI smiled through the whole video, Fran! Merry Christmas!
2017-12-25 08:21:06 +0000 UTCMerry Christmas, Fran! Reminds me of my childhood, getting small kits to put together every Christmas. Now I have the urge to dig out an unfinished project and throw something together tonight!
Carissa Vixen
2017-12-25 04:10:42 +0000 UTC
