I would love to have a copy of my old 50n1 projects I received as a young teen, it is one of the things that gave me my start in electronics when i was very young. Ideally I would like a copy online. Copyright must be respected as per rules of this forum. Links/offers appreciated. I remember one of the Archer kits I would have loved it kept the documentation too what is a regenerative FM radio receiver sucker worked surprisingly well.

 

I would love to have a copy of my old 50n1 projects I received as a young teen, it is one of the things that gave me my start in electronics when i was very young. Ideally I would like a copy online. Copyright must be respected as per rules of this forum. Links/offers appreciated. I remember one of the Archer kits I would have loved it kept the documentation too what is a regenerative FM radio receiver sucker worked surprisingly well.

Try this:

https://radioshackcatalogs.com/flip...ts_50-in-1_electronic_project_kit_28-201.html

 

Mine was made during the mid 70s. Oops did I say that out loud? I really love those old kits.

 

Found the kit in the old catalog 1975 edition: turns out it's the 100 n 1:

hours of entertainment going through those old catalogs thank you. What they call an integrated circuit is actually a surface mount circuit. I would not know this for several decades.

 

Many Radio Shack kit manuals are here:

https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/science_fair_kits.htm

 

Another Kit I've looked for years to find:
https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/...ir_kits_2-transistor_fm_radio_kit_28-115.html

Thank you very much!
I may try to turn this into a protoboard project!

Interesting fact it sends out a carrier wave that will jam the station for other FM receivers. I thought it was odd first time I tried this project, good reception though.

 

The one that got me started was the 65-in-1:

https://radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1973_radioshack_catalog.html

It was a Christmas present from my uncle and very possibly the most influential gift I ever received. I had a lot of fun with that kit, though I was on the young side to grasp what most of the projects were actually about. But enough of them were simple and obvious enough for me to really learn some things.

Note that an AA cell was a whopping 15 cents. From Radio Shack. Wonder what they were at a grocery store.

 

Those little spring clips they use for contacts struck me as genius when I was of that age. They still strike me as an incredibly good idea. I used to browse the RadioShack catalogs and dream of the projects I could build with the parts. Even then I knew that they were not the best provider out there when I went to college they had stories about how they would take the reject bins from some manufacturers the parts were functional but did not meet specification. It would be interesting to see if RadioShack cut in today's world.

 

Hello,

I did have some EE kits from philips:
https://ee.old.no/
I found them more flexible as the radio shack kits.

Bertus

 

I too got hooked on the Philips EE kit.



Years later, I was able to purchase the spring clips and a pegboard which I sold at a HAM flea market. Now I wished I had kept them.

Old AAC thread:
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/educational-electronics-training-kits.78717/

Electronics kit ideas at SparkFun:
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/recreating-classic-electronics-kits/all

 

I wanted everyone to have access to a significant piece of my childhood so I bought the kit from Ebay and sent it to the gentleman running the catalog site where it is now posted online.

https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/...s_100-in-1_electronic_project_kit_28-220.html

Enjoy!

 

Back in 1972, I had a Calectro kit, but don’t recall its model number.

Also someone had given me the instruction manuals for a Philips kit, but not the kit itself. However, the explanation about how electronic components operated was awesome. The inductor’s analogy was a rail car, for the inertia.