Radio Shack kit the wife got me for Christmas. STILL WORKS!
I had that!
I couldn’t do shit with it!
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I had one very close to that in the '80s. I think I built the AM radio and then screwed around with it without reading the instructions for a few hours till I got bored
I did the same as a kid.
Do they still make something like this? I mean, I'm sure the enshitification has made it crappier, but would still want to see.
Honestly, this thing was cool but enshitification had already made it worse. I had this one as well as one that I inherited from a cousin that was about a decade older. This one was flimsy cardboard and the activities were okay, but the older one was made of metal and the activities were much cooler and it gave ideas for how to expand beyond the provided board.
Only modern similar thing I’ve found so far is something called “snap circuits” and they are expensive.
Not by radio shack of course but...
https://www.amazon.com/Elenco-Electronic-Playground-Learning-Center/dp/B0035XSZDI
I had that one!! Nice! I got the am radio working a couple of times and the many different circuits.
this guy goes over it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhfwdU2-Vec
Interesting! The one that guy shows is by a different company but with the same components in the same locations.
I didn't know multiple companies copied the kits exactly like that
I had the (much smaller) AM/FM (or was it just AM?) radio one. Late 1970s? I loved putting that thing together and having it work.
This one?
No, mine was the transistor radio, kind of in between those two.