SparkFun Electronics Commentsurn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f82492024-03-29T06:02:41-06:00SparkFun ElectronicsPocketBrain on Making Makers: Reflections on (Many) ChildhoodsPocketBrainurn:uuid:8eaa2b91-9a87-f5b9-99cf-696db33339e72015-03-10T22:56:38-06:00<p>Is that a Versapak drill/driver Nathan is holding?</p>
Customer #657057 on Making Makers: Reflections on (Many) ChildhoodsCustomer #657057urn:uuid:8bb9c26d-dbb8-b763-85b5-860ed11d71c32015-03-04T12:31:10-07:00<p>I was the young grade school kid who stalled the class movies by creating a plug out of gum foil and shorting the room out by plugging it into the wall. Did not get caught because the teachers thought only a boy would do such a thing.</p>
Customer #657057 on Making Makers: Reflections on (Many) ChildhoodsCustomer #657057urn:uuid:82e83c60-53a0-8753-f941-b2481f3868522015-03-04T12:26:07-07:00<p>Definitely the kid who took things apart. Parents were frustrated because of course I did not put things back together. They had enough and purchased a transistor radio that I could use, so at a very young age I learned about tuning capacitors. Ever since then, electronics is my life's passion and I made a career in it. The article is very well written and informative and made me think about my choices.</p>
BBB on Making Makers: Reflections on (Many) ChildhoodsBBBurn:uuid:664dd2ff-ac66-9b80-84d1-06bcb91a20762015-03-04T11:08:10-07:00<p>I broke every interesting toy that was given to me, sort of on purpose to see how it worked. The mechanism was always vastly simpler than I had imagined. My most startling aha moment as an adult was finding out what happens when you put a large capacitor in backwards and give it power. My ears are still ringing.</p>
TheCentaur on Making Makers: Reflections on (Many) ChildhoodsTheCentaururn:uuid:c85d305b-6376-36db-656d-68c4cc97c3312015-03-03T19:34:16-07:00<p>I hooked the AC output of a toy train transformer to a D cell battery once.... after the smoke cleared and we scraped the electrolyte off everything I noted the top part of the battery has blown itself a nice hole in the drywall ceiling. Ah, the good old days.</p>
free-bee on Making Makers: Reflections on (Many) Childhoodsfree-beeurn:uuid:a70903f9-7ba8-0bf0-10f6-6fbd0a0a60be2015-03-03T15:59:24-07:00<p>I did that with a neon (or some type of gas) light. Thankfully not many shards were produced from the bright, beautiful flash. Not too long later I learned about those types of bulbs. I also learned back a long time ago about putting 18 volts into an LED with no resistor.</p>
Erik-Sparkfun on Making Makers: Reflections on (Many) ChildhoodsErik-Sparkfunurn:uuid:dde483cc-4776-1e85-ba7b-56d7f188d8472015-03-03T15:11:01-07:00<p>For me it was a screwdriver and a broken RC police car at age 5... and then I stuck the wires from the lights into the wall outlet because obviously that's how you get them to light up.<p>On the positive side, I never did anything like that again. On the negative side... this was in the mid-80s, so there's no youtube.</p></p>
TheCentaur on Making Makers: Reflections on (Many) ChildhoodsTheCentaururn:uuid:414911ac-1cea-891b-764b-a5bd7f9bf8042015-03-03T10:07:17-07:00<p>Never underestimate the power of an inquisitive kid with a soldering iron and a hot melt glue gun!</p>