I don't really remember much of when I was 5, but I do remember building
stuff in elementary school. One thing that was fun was getting a couple
telephones (there were lots of military surplus stores in the area) and a
battery. I ran wires to my friends' houses and we could talk on our own
telephone system. My father and I also built a crystal radio. I remember
using a Quaker Oats box to wind the coil around. Later, I built a Knight
Kit AM Broadcaster, a small AM transmitter with two 50C5s and a 12AX7
tube. That stuff was by the time I was in fourth grade. Also made a spark
gap transmitter out of a buzzer out of some neighbor's broken toy. Connect
one side of the interrupter to ground and the other to a big wire antenna.
I could send Morse code for several blocks and hear it on AM radios.

Good luck with the project!

Harold


> Hi,
>
>     My 5 years old son is starting to be VERY interested in what I do and
> is
> asking me more and more to teach him "how to make boards" :-) I am lost
> here
> and I would like to check if anyone on the list has started to teach the
> kid's so early and how I should do this...
>
>     I thought about a breadboard, some LED's, some resistors, a buzzer,
> some
> switches, potentiometers and if I can grab one a analog miliamp meter..
>
>     Is it too soon ? Is there any way to make it fun for him ? I would
> hate
> to let him loose interest and he is very interested now... Almost everyday
> he looks at my garbage can looking for "boards", wires and anything that I
> throw away..
>
> Best regards,
> Alexandre Guimaraes
>
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