Warning: this post consists basically of nothing more than a commercial endorsement of a product I haven’t purchased, haven’t reviewed, and know nothing about.
Well, except this: I know this is a totally awesome idea!
I missed this kickstarter, but that’s okay, because they got funded (boy, did they get funded) and there is a full-blown shop now.
As someone with a ten-year old, and somebody who occasionally teaches classes on “how to become an Amateur Radio Operator”, I have all sorts of practical reasons to want to pick one of these kits up. As a nerd, OMG WANT EVERYTHING.
I’m not letting myself make any purchases for 24 hours. I’ll publish a review after I get a kit. If you’ve already got one, sound off in the comments.
Those things are pretty awesome. I want to find an excuse to use one of them in a presentation where the light turns on at the very end when I get to the big idea.Report
Patrick, do you have a HAM license?
My sweetie’s been doing some work with this — though the radios he’s building are often to control art installations. He recently began collecting discarded phones at the free-store at the dump; they’re radio transmitters and receivers, after all, and uses the components with arduinos and raspberry pi’s as controllers in his classes.
This is pretty sweet, I’ll send him a link, thank you.Report
My own needs are for something a bit more durable than components laying on paper. But if they’ve solved the rest of the problems, a little x-y plotter to draw lines, some solder paste, surface mount versions of components and a little hot plate for reflow soldering… certainly quicker than sending board artwork off to China.Report
I would have badgered the ‘rents remorselessly for this when I was a kid.Report
You can pry my Weller from my burning, solder scarred hand!
(this is seriously cool!)Report