Yes, I was given one by my stepfather (a Westinghouse Electronics Engineer) when I was twelve. Best gift I ever had. When I received it (Christmas) he told me that in the future, _everything_ would be digital. It took me _many years_ to transition (out of my own pocket) from Analog electronics to Digital electronics. It became my career.
I bought this for my family. We r working through it. I think anyone who actually build all those lessons would have earned a very good education in electronics. For my money, it’s as good as an associate degree in electronics
You're right on there about the education earned if completing the entire set of projects. I just unpacked this and reminded me of the single board computer and curriculum from my college days.
That exact kit is what got me into ham radio and electronics! I ended up going back tom school at the age of 59 for electrical engineering and concentrated on IoT devices. Now, five years later, I still build plenty of stuff with my Arduinos. I prefer the Mega to the Uno due to the extra pins. Great video!
At 09:15 that sensor is for humidity. So it will be for local WX station. Wire it up and use the matrix LED to show temperature, barometer pressure ETC. Did one years ago with the Pi 8x8 LED and it worked quite well..
My dad bought me one I'm not sure it was the 150 kit but it was a lot of fun. I remember rigging wires out to the roof and waiting for a rain storm for the rain alarm what an exciting moment when it went off especially in the desert. My son bought me one of these Elego kits. Ihave had a lot of fun with it. I need to get back to it again as i have quite a few projects I didnt get done. This kit alows you to make a programer for ATMEGA 328 chips. I used it to update my QCX CW radio several times without having to order new chips from over seas.
OH YA ... LOL ..... Iv had one . was a blast. I remember making my own electric motors with wires and pencils and foil from that kit. good old 80s , great vid my friend
Kevin, I have acquired every iteration of the Arduino boards. I use the Mega for prototyping and then make it smaller with nano or pro-mini boards. I've yet to create the "next best thing" but having a blast trying to make it happen.
My journey to EE started with a Denshi Board, then progressed to a 65 in one Archer, then the exact 150 in one kit landed in my lap Christmas morning 1976. When I moved to Dallas at age 22 in 1985 I found a new old stock 150 in one at a Radio Shack in Garland. That one I still have. And years later eBay provided several Denshi board kits. Try locating one if you can, it’s worth it for the manual alone.
Here in Canada we had a store called Consumers Distributing. It was like the Sears catalogue centre, or a JCPennies. They sold almost everything. You went in, looked through the catalogue, and filled out a little slip with the stuff you wanted and hand it To the girl behind the counter (They had just about anything a family would want except groceries). She would add it to the bottom of the stack and the guys out back in the warehouse would take a few of these and collect a cart full of stuff and put in on the back counter were the girls would pick it up and call your name. They had a kit that was 200 or 300 projects in a black plastic brief case. I got one for Christmas one year. I took that thing everywhere I went. Played with it for years. No idea what ever became of it. I actually had my first job there. They sold THINGS that I will not discuss here for family friendliness. One of these is my favourite story, but it's not family friendly so that's as far as I will discuss it here but it was a hilarious story. (I don't think the lady that ordered it would agree). They went out of business in the mid to late 80's. I wish I still had that kit. In my late 50's I can still see me playing with it. Made for a lot of snowy week ends with dad at the kitchen table. Every time I think of it, those are the times I remember! PS just looked it up and I guess you had them in the US as well.
I too have this kit. It's been on the shelf a while! What perfect timing right before Christmas as this kit would be a great gift for a lot of people young and old alike! I would love to see more videos working with micro-controllers. I worked with PLC's a lot in industry and this stuff can really solve problems for you. Please keep up the fantastic videos Kevin! You do have the gift of simplifying and explaining this stuff! Thank You!
Excellent kit. I started with the radio shack kit when I was younger, then I started with the PIC microcontrollers. the Arduino was getting pretty popular so I bought this kit to quickly learn the Arduino and it worked great. easy to use. We really need a kit that covers both kits. I feel the people starting with the Arduino kit are missing out on a lot of the basic electronic skills. Great video, Thanks Kevin.
I got a more basic kit a while back to learn about Arduino as I wanted to use them in radio projects. Had loads of fun following some online tutorials. My kids showed some interest. So, I got them a kit but they haven't shown much interest. Probably because they can't play computer games on it 😄. When I was a kid/teenager learning about electronics, I would have loved something like this.👍Thanks for video Kevin.
Wow I was looking for an electronics kit for my 10 year old son. But I think I'll buy it for myself and pretend it's for him 8-). Brilliant presentation thank you Kevin
Just picked one of these up at a yard sale for $10. They had it marked as $8, but I just gave them a 10. Given they regularly go for $60 plus I think I did okay. Really appreciate the video, gives me an idea of what this little box of goodies is capable of! I figured it was largely worth it even for just the prototyping goodies and an Arduino of any kind.
Nice. My 101 project kit was from 1968, along with 2 50 in 1 chemistry sets..made ink, rocket engines, am radio, fm broadcast station, musical oscillator, and with the cadmium disulfide cell made a air or moisture density change alarm (which dad was happy when the heavy rains came)..other kits included etch your own printed circuit boards (until the etchant process was deemed a hazard to users? Great review on a project kit for us 'big kids'. Now just to figure out with several of these, to have breakfast and coffee made and ready each morning!! A fashionable mention of the Holidays, Until next time.. 73 Gary in Mi kb8qlz
Great video Kevin. Yes, I remember way back when I got my Radio Shack Science Fair 100 in 1 Electronic Projects kit. I spent hours and hours with that. Then I started combining projects and taking notes; I think I had it up about 400 and some projects I had made. Of course I couldn't afford those expensive breadboards, so I had to use perfboards and recycled parts from old radios and other dead electronics. That said, I somehow wound up with over 900 Tabacco cans worth of unsoldered/clipped resistors, caps, transistors, etc., And yet still managed to have huge boxes full of more 'junk'. My biggest problem other than storage... Was testing. Since back in the 70s we didn't have cheap transistor testers, and making a quality tester was nearly impossible as some components were just not available in my area - mostly the correct meters, still too pricey for a poor kid/family like mine. It's nice to see that some of these types of electronic project kits are still made, but too bad they aren't U.S. made, and in real English for the manuals! You would think the importers would "add some value" by ensuring proper manuals exist. Thank you again for the presentation. 😃👍😎 Btw, one question... Why do they call them "sketches" instead of programs in the Arduino & similar world? To be candid, I am not big fan of the term 'maker' either. This renaming of common terms is really starting to bug me. Don't get me started with 'aircrafts' & 'maths' both are incorrect (as both use the singular & plural as the same word - look it up in any dictionary BOOK that's 50 years old or older! Ok I just dated myself...) , and clearly started by the illiterate muttonheads to are too lazy to use a real dictionary! 😡
I also ended up with boxes of scavenged parts. Your question is common enough that it's been addressed. :-) stackoverflow.com/questions/16017875/why-is-an-arduino-program-called-a-sketch#:~:text=The%20Arduino%20programming%20language%20is,literacy%20within%20the%20visual%20arts.
I had Dick Smith Fun Way to Electronics books. You stuck the project schematic on the wooden board and screwed down the wires and components. Loved it! Then met a family friend who was a ham…. The rest is history…. 7 years at sea as an RO. ❤
the blue grid sensor - is a temp/humidity/heat index sensor. I've been playing with those hooked up to wemos d1 mini boards and then connected to node-red running on my raspberry pi - for the beginnings of home automation.
I know you don't, you just needed a break from the SDX issue. I am glad both have settled down like professional. I saw his apology youtube video and it sounds true. 73 👍🏼
My Dad bought me a Radio Shack "50 in 1". I fell in love with it and almost majored in E.E. But I was always love airplanes. But ultimately majored in Mechanical Engineering and not Aerospace after studying for a few years. Not alot of people fly airplanes like cars. Anyway............
Since you love airplanes like me, you might like the stuff Im posting on my channel. I recently started posting my DIY RC planes. Do give it a watch :)
Got this MCU from microcenter and it's just great. I discovered Visual Studio Code and platformIO as an ide and that's great too. Now I'm trying to learn the ins and outs of building my own board using KiCad and EasyEda. What I really wanna do is use this to drive an sdr and use a 32bit or greater adc.
Thanks. I would have preferred that you knew what the components were rather than just guessing but other comments indicate that your approach is ok. In the 50s I had a GE kit which was bad but my friend had a Lionel kit which was really good - including a relay to control a 110 volt outlet - real world ability!
OH YEAH!! LOL..I remember those. So, I got this kit plus another one from a thrift store for 10 bucks. The first project was the simple LED with a button. Why did they use the 220 ohm resistor? They didn't say that. If I put a higher ohm resistor on there would it dull the light brightness? I didn't want to try cuz I didn't want to blow anything up. Love this kit though, it's fun!! The kit I got from the thrift store still had the 9 v battery in plastic... good deal!! Thanks for the video!!
They put the resistor in series with the LED to limit the current flowing through the LED. And LED is a diode so in one direction it's basically a short and is much current as you can provide would go through it. So the resistor keeps the LED from burning out by limiting the amount of current that can flow through it.
My brother-in-law just sent me this video I'm an hvac technician I can use this in a pinch in the event at controller goes bad I can program this to control relays
You brought back memories. You also tinkered with one of my favorite toys. I have learned from both of those, the atmega and the 101. Now, I’m an ESP32 fanboy, but all microcontrollers have a place
@@Jimwill01 oh okay. Did you end up going into the same career field as your hobby? Im 18 and I've always been fascinated by aviation. I even build RC planes as a hobby, and I recently started posting videos on my channel, do check it out. I wish to pursue my interest in aviation as a career, so I'll hopefully be starting an aircraft maintenance engineering course soon. Wish me luck! Great talking to u :)
Yes, I was given one by my stepfather (a Westinghouse Electronics Engineer) when I was twelve. Best gift I ever had.
When I received it (Christmas) he told me that in the future, _everything_ would be digital.
It took me _many years_ to transition (out of my own pocket) from Analog electronics to Digital electronics.
It became my career.
Kevin, You never cease to Dazzle your viewers with your ability to clearly explain technology!!!
I bought this for my family. We r working through it. I think anyone who actually build all those lessons would have earned a very good education in electronics. For my money, it’s as good as an associate degree in electronics
You're right on there about the education earned if completing the entire set of projects. I just unpacked this and reminded me of the single board computer and curriculum from my college days.
That exact kit is what got me into ham radio and electronics! I ended up going back tom school at the age of 59 for electrical engineering and concentrated on IoT devices. Now, five years later, I still build plenty of stuff with my Arduinos. I prefer the Mega to the Uno due to the extra pins. Great video!
At 09:15 that sensor is for humidity. So it will be for local WX station. Wire it up and use the matrix LED to show temperature, barometer pressure ETC. Did one years ago with the Pi 8x8 LED and it worked quite well..
I've just ordered this from Amazon due to your review. I'm looking forward to experimenting with it. Maybe something radio related. Thanks Kevin!
My dad bought me one I'm not sure it was the 150 kit but it was a lot of fun. I remember rigging wires out to the roof and waiting for a rain storm for the rain alarm what an exciting moment when it went off especially in the desert. My son bought me one of these Elego kits. Ihave had a lot of fun with it. I need to get back to it again as i have quite a few projects I didnt get done. This kit alows you to make a programer for ATMEGA 328 chips. I used it to update my QCX CW radio several times without having to order new chips from over seas.
OH YA ... LOL ..... Iv had one . was a blast. I remember making my own electric motors with wires and pencils and foil from that kit. good old 80s , great vid my friend
Kevin, I have acquired every iteration of the Arduino boards. I use the Mega for prototyping and then make it smaller with nano or pro-mini boards. I've yet to create the "next best thing" but having a blast trying to make it happen.
My journey to EE started with a Denshi Board, then progressed to a 65 in one Archer, then the exact 150 in one kit landed in my lap Christmas morning 1976. When I moved to Dallas at age 22 in 1985 I found a new old stock 150 in one at a Radio Shack in Garland. That one I still have. And years later eBay provided several Denshi board kits. Try locating one if you can, it’s worth it for the manual alone.
Here in Canada we had a store called Consumers Distributing. It was like the Sears catalogue centre, or a JCPennies. They sold almost everything. You went in, looked through the catalogue, and filled out a little slip with the stuff you wanted and hand it To the girl behind the counter (They had just about anything a family would want except groceries). She would add it to the bottom of the stack and the guys out back in the warehouse would take a few of these and collect a cart full of stuff and put in on the back counter were the girls would pick it up and call your name. They had a kit that was 200 or 300 projects in a black plastic brief case. I got one for Christmas one year. I took that thing everywhere I went. Played with it for years. No idea what ever became of it. I actually had my first job there. They sold THINGS that I will not discuss here for family friendliness. One of these is my favourite story, but it's not family friendly so that's as far as I will discuss it here but it was a hilarious story. (I don't think the lady that ordered it would agree). They went out of business in the mid to late 80's. I wish I still had that kit. In my late 50's I can still see me playing with it. Made for a lot of snowy week ends with dad at the kitchen table. Every time I think of it, those are the times I remember! PS just looked it up and I guess you had them in the US as well.
I too have this kit. It's been on the shelf a while! What perfect timing right before Christmas as this kit would be a great gift for a lot of people young and old alike! I would love to see more videos working with micro-controllers. I worked with PLC's a lot in industry and this stuff can really solve problems for you. Please keep up the fantastic videos Kevin! You do have the gift of simplifying and explaining this stuff! Thank You!
We had it for about 8 months before using it, then we got hooked.
Excellent kit. I started with the radio shack kit when I was younger, then I started with the PIC microcontrollers. the Arduino was getting pretty popular so I bought this kit to quickly learn the Arduino and it worked great. easy to use. We really need a kit that covers both kits. I feel the people starting with the Arduino kit are missing out on a lot of the basic electronic skills. Great video, Thanks Kevin.
I got a more basic kit a while back to learn about Arduino as I wanted to use them in radio projects. Had loads of fun following some online tutorials. My kids showed some interest. So, I got them a kit but they haven't shown much interest. Probably because they can't play computer games on it 😄. When I was a kid/teenager learning about electronics, I would have loved something like this.👍Thanks for video Kevin.
Wow I was looking for an electronics kit for my 10 year old son. But I think I'll buy it for myself and pretend it's for him 8-). Brilliant presentation thank you Kevin
Just picked one of these up at a yard sale for $10. They had it marked as $8, but I just gave them a 10. Given they regularly go for $60 plus I think I did okay. Really appreciate the video, gives me an idea of what this little box of goodies is capable of! I figured it was largely worth it even for just the prototyping goodies and an Arduino of any kind.
Just starting out in electronics and found your video to be very helpful in deciding whether to pick up this Elegoo kit. Many thanks for sharing!
Nice. My 101 project kit was from 1968, along with 2 50 in 1 chemistry sets..made ink, rocket engines, am radio, fm broadcast station, musical oscillator, and with the cadmium disulfide cell made a air or moisture density change alarm (which dad was happy when the heavy rains came)..other kits included etch your own printed circuit boards (until the etchant process was deemed a hazard to users?
Great review on a project kit for us 'big kids'. Now just to figure out with several of these, to have breakfast and coffee made and ready each morning!!
A fashionable mention of the Holidays,
Until next time..
73
Gary in Mi
kb8qlz
Great video Kevin.
Yes, I remember way back when I got my Radio Shack Science Fair 100 in 1 Electronic Projects kit. I spent hours and hours with that. Then I started combining projects and taking notes; I think I had it up about 400 and some projects I had made.
Of course I couldn't afford those expensive breadboards, so I had to use perfboards and recycled parts from old radios and other dead electronics.
That said, I somehow wound up with over 900 Tabacco cans worth of unsoldered/clipped resistors, caps, transistors, etc., And yet still managed to have huge boxes full of more 'junk'.
My biggest problem other than storage... Was testing. Since back in the 70s we didn't have cheap transistor testers, and making a quality tester was nearly impossible as some components were just not available in my area - mostly the correct meters, still too pricey for a poor kid/family like mine.
It's nice to see that some of these types of electronic project kits are still made, but too bad they aren't U.S. made, and in real English for the manuals! You would think the importers would "add some value" by ensuring proper manuals exist.
Thank you again for the presentation. 😃👍😎
Btw, one question... Why do they call them "sketches" instead of programs in the Arduino & similar world? To be candid, I am not big fan of the term 'maker' either.
This renaming of common terms is really starting to bug me. Don't get me started with 'aircrafts' & 'maths' both are incorrect (as both use the singular & plural as the same word - look it up in any dictionary BOOK that's 50 years old or older! Ok I just dated myself...) , and clearly started by the illiterate muttonheads to are too lazy to use a real dictionary! 😡
I also ended up with boxes of scavenged parts.
Your question is common enough that it's been addressed. :-)
stackoverflow.com/questions/16017875/why-is-an-arduino-program-called-a-sketch#:~:text=The%20Arduino%20programming%20language%20is,literacy%20within%20the%20visual%20arts.
@@loughkb Thanks Kevin. Btw, hope your T-day went nicely... 🦃👍 73
I spied on my parents and uncles, never heard anything important around Christmas but made them mad, oh it was fun.. It was a useful box of projects
I had Dick Smith Fun Way to Electronics books. You stuck the project schematic on the wooden board and screwed down the wires and components. Loved it! Then met a family friend who was a ham…. The rest is history…. 7 years at sea as an RO. ❤
the blue grid sensor - is a temp/humidity/heat index sensor. I've been playing with those hooked up to wemos d1 mini boards and then connected to node-red running on my raspberry pi - for the beginnings of home automation.
Glad to see you back. 😁
I never left, just took a break to shed some stress.
I know you don't, you just needed a break from the SDX issue. I am glad both have settled down like professional. I saw his apology youtube video and it sounds true. 73 👍🏼
I begged my dad for one of those electronic kits when I was a kid. I quickly became disinterested in it. Now I got this r3 kit
I know what I want Santa to bring me for Christmas! Great video!
2:06 Dude knocked the company with a single phrase "they say" lol
No, knocking the idea of complete in a field where there are many hundreds of peripherals.
Loved this video Kevin but really looking forward to more Ham videos. I enjoy seeing things from your point of view
My Dad bought me a Radio Shack "50 in 1". I fell in love with it and almost majored in E.E. But I was always love airplanes. But ultimately majored in Mechanical Engineering and not Aerospace after studying for a few years. Not alot of people fly airplanes like cars. Anyway............
Since you love airplanes like me, you might like the stuff Im posting on my channel. I recently started posting my DIY RC planes. Do give it a watch :)
Got this MCU from microcenter and it's just great. I discovered Visual Studio Code and platformIO as an ide and that's great too. Now I'm trying to learn the ins and outs of building my own board using KiCad and EasyEda. What I really wanna do is use this to drive an sdr and use a 32bit or greater adc.
Thanks. I would have preferred that you knew what the components were rather than just guessing but other comments indicate that your approach is ok. In the 50s I had a GE kit which was bad but my friend had a Lionel kit which was really good - including a relay to control a 110 volt outlet - real world ability!
OH YEAH!! LOL..I remember those. So, I got this kit plus another one from a thrift store for 10 bucks. The first project was the simple LED with a button. Why did they use the 220 ohm resistor? They didn't say that. If I put a higher ohm resistor on there would it dull the light brightness? I didn't want to try cuz I didn't want to blow anything up. Love this kit though, it's fun!! The kit I got from the thrift store still had the 9 v battery in plastic... good deal!! Thanks for the video!!
They put the resistor in series with the LED to limit the current flowing through the LED. And LED is a diode so in one direction it's basically a short and is much current as you can provide would go through it. So the resistor keeps the LED from burning out by limiting the amount of current that can flow through it.
My brother-in-law just sent me this video
I'm an hvac technician I can use this in a pinch in the event at controller goes bad I can program this to control relays
Another excellent video. Thanks, Kevin
Dang it man! Now I’ve got to explain another random purchase to the wife!!! 😂
You brought back memories. You also tinkered with one of my favorite toys. I have learned from both of those, the atmega and the 101. Now, I’m an ESP32 fanboy, but all microcontrollers have a place
Great presentation, therefore I am now subscribed.
Great review as always !
It triggers on micro changes of air density.
And a Merry Christmass to one and all🎆🎄🎍🎁
Nice video. Thanks. I was just looking at this.
Wish you had an amazon affiliate link. The Walmart one is now $99 while on Amazon you can get the same thing for $65
Thanks!!!
And i had the RS kit also..
Yet another great video Cheers Kevin 73 GØUSL
Nice kit
I had several chemistry sets, no electronics kits.
Great video
Ultrasonic Distance = 1080 fps * (Time To Target and Back/2) Depending on density altitude
when my dad noticed my interest in electronics, I got a lecture! "Why don't you learn something useful instead of wasting your time with this junk!"
What a horrible farther, did he give you any alternatives
@@markhodgson2348 nope. in addition he was an alcoholic, he got very mean when drunk.
I feel sorry for you
@@AhmeddoesRC I'm 75 now - all in the far distant past!
@@Jimwill01 oh okay. Did you end up going into the same career field as your hobby? Im 18 and I've always been fascinated by aviation. I even build RC planes as a hobby, and I recently started posting videos on my channel, do check it out. I wish to pursue my interest in aviation as a career, so I'll hopefully be starting an aircraft maintenance engineering course soon. Wish me luck! Great talking to u :)
Intro was funny hehehehe