> In college I was rather disappointed to discover that the EE lab
> courses were rather unlike the sort of "experiments" I would have
> been interested in; they were more about learning to use relatively
> standard equipment to measure characteristics of relatively
> "standard" circuits, which you assembled exactly as shown in some
> book.  Sigh.  I guess it was vaguely interesting to see the
> transistor curves actually plotted and looking like the plots in the
> theory texts, but ... there was no EXPERIMENTATION.  (Chem and
> physics labs were like this too.  Logic circuits (a CS class at the
> time) were a bit, but not much, better.)
>

The AofE "Bad idea" circuits could be a fun inspiration.
Also, repair of radios, anything you can actually GET parts for.
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