What did I do with Vivien the last weekends? We soldered a radio receiver kit (retro style) and it worked - there are still plenty of stations on the air all over Europe. Nowadays you have to make quite some effort to find interesting electronic kits - besides the radio we got a candle light simulator (it is an LED controlled by a PIC microcontroller that imitates a realistic flickering candle in the form factor a small candle).
Do you remember the Sony walkman? It was at the time quite a revolution - looking at it now it looks a bit bulky. The BBC4 program "
electric dreams" featuring a fast-forward through technologies from the time I was born till now was very entertaining and it brought back a lot of memories … ups getting old :-(
What did I do with Vivien the last weekends? We soldered a radio receiver kit (retro style) and it worked - there are still plenty of stations on the air all over Europe. Nowadays you have to make quite some effort to find interesting electronic kits - besides the radio we got a candle light simulator (it is an LED controlled by a PIC microcontroller that imitates a realistic flickering candle in the form factor a small candle).
Do you remember the Sony walkman? It was at the time quite a revolution - looking at it now it looks a bit bulky. The BBC4 program "electric dreams" featuring a fast-forward through technologies from the time I was born till now was very entertaining and it brought back a lot of memories … ups getting old :-(
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