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After last night's stream I think I want to do a handcam stream teaching digital logic with real logic gates... and I realized that good digital logic demo/learning kits just don't seem to exist any more. Nothing like what I had when I was young.
I might have to design my own...
Everything seems to be either:
- For breadboards. Breadboards don't have a spatial/intuitive layout.
- Just a pile of stuff in one big PCB with a fixed layout
- Too dumbed down, few gates with bright colors for really young kids
- Arduino/whatever/not logic
I had a kit that had transistors, resistors, capacitors, and logic blocks that would snap onto a carrier board (in whatever layout you want), and then wire up with flying wires. You could add your own parts too (bare resistors etc).
There was a 2 digit LCD counter module too.
I think it was like... French or something? But obviously it doesn't exist any more.
I kind of really want to design a modern version of this now and I think I have a plan...
@lina I believe @cliffordheath built a few of these
@lina Okay, so I'm not the only one who had issues following logic on breadboards because of that!
I would be 10,000% down for that
@lina Like Ben Eater, kinda?
@Yuki I actually have the 6502 Ben Eater kit, but Ben Eater is too advanced/opaque. It's breadboards. It assumes/requires a certain intuition.
I want to build something that can be used by everyone from young kids (8 and up, and not just "gifted" kids) to adults wanting to learn later in life. And which in fact could be used *with* breadboards and the Ben Eater kit later!
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