Day 390 of 1000
The UPS guy brought a box of very cool stuff to the house yesterday. It is all the stuff Christian will use in his first Electrical Engineering lab class. The capstone project in the class is the building of a voltage regulator. I have VERY fond memories of my Electrical Fundamentals class at Oregon Institute of Technology back in the 80’s. I have to admit I was pretty envious when I saw the box. It had capacitors, resistors, a breadboard, wires, and a ton of other stuff only an EE geek could appreciate.
Most of the guys in a class also bought a soldering iron and some flux core solder, but we had one left over from the radio kit we tried (and failed) to assemble and get to work. We could probably still get it going, but it would be a royal pain. Still, Christian got a ton of practice soldering and playing with components. That should help him a ton in his class.
The class he is in is an analog class. I hope he gets to do a digital circuit design class before he is done. That was wildly fun. I think, though, that era has passed. Now they learn how to program FPGA’s. That would be fun, too. Maybe they have a class at the community college that I could take in the evenings. As if I have enough time while I am trying to pay for college.