February 28, 2005

Maxitronix 300-in-1

I decided i was interested enough in learning more about how electronics work to spend money on it. Upon the recommendation from the folks at the new Make magazine, i picked up a Maxitronix 300-in-1 electronic project kit from the folks at Elenco (available here, here, and here). It's got a ton of interesting projects and will probably keep me busy for the next few weeks. I've got to start by learning how to read these resistors: black = 0, brown =1, red = 2, ...

Posted by Matthew at February 28, 2005 09:17 PM
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I just bought the same set. Have you noticed any apparent errors in the manual?

Posted by: Mark at February 24, 2006 06:44 PM

Mark: I really don't recall. I only got though a few of the projects. The manual didn't have the kind of detail that i would have liked. I wanted a better explaination of what was really going on.

Posted by: Matthew at February 27, 2006 09:08 AM