I spent a nice Saturday afternoon doing a puzzle. Now are the days of me laying jigsaw puzzles for fun long ago, in fact, I don’t like the tension at the end of all the hard work that one piece is missing. This one is a bit different, a jigsaw puzzle made by Philips (1974 I assume due to the writing on the envelope) of the front of my beloved EE8 electronic engineer kit. 172 pieces, so even I could endure the tension and finish it. Of course one piece went missing and turned up underneath the carton plate. So here … Continue reading Philips EE8 jigsaw puzzle

New kits keep coming in! Now I found again a electronic learning aid with a different twist: The Braun Lectron. With this system the circuits are build up of blocks that are connected with little magnets. Continue reading New kit: Braun Lectron

On the website you can now admire two new kits in my collection: The Philips X40 kit, only published in the UK in the 70ties The ITT Elektronik Experimenters kit, for teaching on schools. These two kits are not the usual Philips type of kits I have collected. The construction mechanism is quite different, more the pin to pin with cables (ITT) or fixed connections (X40) . The X40 has the usual collection of fun electronics, from alarms to radio. The ITT kit is more serious and aimed at studenst learning the basics of electronics. Of course it is mounted … Continue reading New kits on the site