Re: hobby electronics

On Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:06:30 -0700, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:04:21 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
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On Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:28:17 -0700, john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech>
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It's my opinion that there are few hobbyists that really work with
parts and make circuits, and most EE grads are EE/CE dual majors that
code more than they solder, and don't have instincts for electricity.
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Here's a youtube on the subject:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnolhyT5SI
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Some of these guys blame surface mount, which seems wrong to me. There
are lots of thru-hole parts and parts kits around.
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I'd like to hire a few kids who love component-level electronics, but
they are hard to find.

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Send your hunting teams out to radio amateur meetings.  Bring nets.
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Joe Gwinn

 
Is there still ham radio? Internet, cell phones, email, games, texting,
and free long-distance seems to have killed that.

Go to any ham rally and you'll be lucky to find anyone under 50 nowadays.
You'll find plenty of people over 70, though! Not what you're looking for
obviously, but it's the sad truth.

 
I plan to explore the local maker spaces, hoping to find kids who like
real electronics, or at least can program Raspberry Pi at low level.

When PCs became affordable thanks to the likes of Sinclair with his
ZX80/81, Spectrum etc., an awful lot of kids who would have ventured into
electronics and radio ended up being seduced into the digital world and
never looked back. That's a big factor here, too.