So when I was in about 5th or 6th grade I started to get interested in electronics. I remember my dad giving me his old Kodak camera that didn't work. So me...being enthusiastic about taking stuff apart....I decided to take the camera apart to see what the problem was. Well of course with no real electronics learning background I ended up putting it back together. Went to try it out and oh my 
It was fixed. I had no idea what I did but the camera worked again 
Later sometime my brother and I were riding our bikes down alley and noticed the parents of this girl we knew had dumped out a whole bunch of stuff by trash. So we went through it to see what was salvageable. I had found a small hand held portable radio. We went home and I put a battery in it to see if it worked. Sadly it did not. But then again I decided to take it apart and look it over. Once again my lack of electronics know how simply just made it that difficult for me to figure out what all the tiny parts were for. So again I just put it back together
When I put the battery back in it, something amazing happened Music started to play 
I was blown off my feet. I could not believe I got it to work
About a year or 2 later while attending freshman year at my high school I met this blind kid whom was also into electronics. He would bring in different thing he made in electronics at school. The stuff he brought, and the sh-t worked, was like an intercom, a tv scrambler, and even an am radio that was put into a book The stuff was neat and made me realize I wanted to take electronics the following year.
That Christmas, 1982, I had asked my parents for an electronics lab kit that was sold at Radio Shack. Christmas came and I did get my lab. Man it had 160 different projects and I was in heaven
I made so many projects it was unbelievable.. The following 2 years I took electronics in school and made numerous things from a tv scrambler to a frog phone that the eyes even lit up when it rang. I even took an old radio apart, and added a new slider volume pot to it. I built a small box and put radio in it
Eventually my love of electronics had dissipated and I lost interest (girls)... That had become more important
I did how ever think of going to an electronics school after high school, but the girl thing took my mind off of it.
So as a closing and the whole purpose of this story I shared was because I just got the exact same old electronics lab off of eBay. It cost me quite a bit but I wanted my son Billy to get involved as I did when I was his age. My son Billy helps me with many different projects including my Boomboxes ... I really hope he enjoys this kit as much as I did 30 years ago
It was fixed. I had no idea what I did but the camera worked again Later sometime my brother and I were riding our bikes down alley and noticed the parents of this girl we knew had dumped out a whole bunch of stuff by trash. So we went through it to see what was salvageable. I had found a small hand held portable radio. We went home and I put a battery in it to see if it worked. Sadly it did not. But then again I decided to take it apart and look it over. Once again my lack of electronics know how simply just made it that difficult for me to figure out what all the tiny parts were for. So again I just put it back together
When I put the battery back in it, something amazing happened Music started to play I was blown off my feet. I could not believe I got it to work About a year or 2 later while attending freshman year at my high school I met this blind kid whom was also into electronics. He would bring in different thing he made in electronics at school. The stuff he brought, and the sh-t worked, was like an intercom, a tv scrambler, and even an am radio that was put into a book
The stuff was neat and made me realize I wanted to take electronics the following year. That Christmas, 1982, I had asked my parents for an electronics lab kit that was sold at Radio Shack. Christmas came and I did get my lab. Man it had 160 different projects and I was in heaven
I made so many projects it was unbelievable.. The following 2 years I took electronics in school and made numerous things from a tv scrambler to a frog phone that the eyes even lit up when it rang. I even took an old radio apart, and added a new slider volume pot to it. I built a small box and put radio in it Eventually my love of electronics had dissipated and I lost interest (girls)... That had become more important
I did how ever think of going to an electronics school after high school, but the girl thing took my mind off of it. So as a closing and the whole purpose of this story I shared was because I just got the exact same old electronics lab off of eBay. It cost me quite a bit but I wanted my son Billy to get involved as I did when I was his age. My son Billy helps me with many different projects including my Boomboxes ... I really hope he enjoys this kit as much as I did 30 years ago
