Add a couple LEDs and they make swell creepy blinking eyes in the bushes for Halloween.
Posted on 03/04/2014 5:08:26 PM PST by kingattax
Where will the hobbyists go now, other than the Web?
I still have my Radio Shack analog Stereo Watt Meter, 200 Watt version. Had it for almost 30 years now and it still works!
Where will the hobbyists go now, other than the Web?
Radio Shack DX-160 Shortwave Receiver. Best back then, still highly sought after today. What a great receiver!
Oh. A keyboard. How quaint.
Surface Mount Technology has literally killed hobbyist electronics. Raspberry Pi devices have a nice niche today, but that’s not enough to build an entire business around.
Add a couple LEDs and they make swell creepy blinking eyes in the bushes for Halloween.
You have that right.
Myself and at least a dozen other people I know all say the same thing... "whatever happened to the old Radio Shack?"
My brother got that exact same football game for Christmas in 1982... I got the Soccer one. We still have them... and they still work.
Well, there are those battery holders that you have to wrap a rubber band around to force it into contact with a battery.
In its "hay day" RS sold ICs for six times the price you could get the same ones elsewhere. They were always for use in a "builder's emergency".
They do have one thing of quality I haven't found anywhere else: a five-way binding post that plugs into a banana jack.
-PJ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4XU6A7AWbg
Radio Shack, spoof of the B52’s Love Shack, by Guns n Moses
“I’m a dork, my best friend’s a TRS 80...clip on ties!
Geeky guys!”
Surprising if they do not. But Amazon also had part in killing RS. http://www.amazon.com/RASPBERRY-MODEL-756-8308-Raspberry-Pi/dp/B009SQQF9C
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