Electronics Tinkering Nostalgia

im super into stuff like this, takes me back to messing with circuit sims for hours

Yes! I've wanted something like this since I was 12 and could never understand why it didn't exist. How else was I to learn circuitry at that age? Thanks!

Couple of points.When I was a lad, making electronics meant you could listen to shortwave radio or talk to people around the world, when there was little other opportunity.Plus, things like cars were still hackable with a few transistors and passive components, you could make a customised indicator timer, or turbo timer or what ever, and it was probably way cheaper if you knew what you were doing.Fast forward, very little you can now make is cheaper, or creates a functionality not other

Many people make electronics as a hobby. It's probably a fairly high-impact hobby compared to knitting or reading, but I'd credit the author for at least thinking of a use case for their little microcontroller board. I also imagine they soldered all of the PCBs they got, instead of buying five, populating two, and leaving both in a drawer after bring-up which is so normal now that PCBs are so cheap.

Reminds me of the "Electronic Lab" toys I had as a child https://www.petervis.com/electronics-lab/200-in-one-electron...

Some things are a hobby to tinker with and learn from.

I experienced that and enjoyed electronics because I had far more power to create physical things that I found exciting. If you're into making gadgets and machines and robots and all that, computers weren't enough on their own or even any use at all.Nowadays, it's a bit murkier because you can use single board computers with pre-made modules for interfacing with the real world and assemble a gadget with almost no application of electronics knowledge and mostly just software.

This will be very unique, but I learned soldering and a small bit of electronics :)

I disagree. I as an adult with zero prior experience with electronics have recently completed the book "Make: Electronics", which contains such experiments, and I got a sense of amazement very much resembling one that a(n) (intellectually curious) child would have. A 555, a couple of trimpots and a speaker can be loads of fun!

that is very cool, i didnt know there was a word for it. i remember when i was a boy i would take apart random electronics that my dad gave to me. it was so fun, i tell you what, if someone created a store like how they have make and paint your own pottery stores but for taking apart, rebuilding, or freshly assembling electronics like my dad coached me with, i think it would be very popular and also help peak interest in electronics. kinda like build a bear but build a bot/radio/comput