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From: gbell@pnet12.cts.com (Greg Bell)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Advice on getting started...?
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Date: 28 Sep 89 05:36:05 GMT
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sean@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Sean P. Nolan) writes:
>
>I'm looking for advice from people here on how to get started actually DOING
>something with electronics. I've read a few books and have a pretty good 
>understanding of what various components (discrete and within ICs) do and how
>they work. But I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do now. Picking up random

I "got started" when I received a Radio Shack 100 in 1 (or 101, or 120)
Electronics Project Kit.  Its not called exactly that, but the RS guys will
know what you're talking about.  

Its a prototyping box with various components, and a book of projects.   They
vary from a radio transmitter to a LED display driver, etc.  Fun stuff.  And,
you can easily modify the projects or build your own.  

    Greg Bell_________________________________________________________
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