Leaping Into Hardware

The two replacement parts for the bat detector arrived today, so I’m all set to finish the project up (assuming of course I can manage to desolder the old parts). Already I’m leaping ahead though. The kit I’m building after this one is a low-power 40 meter transceiver, the SW-40+. Leap one after that is learning how to build circuits without having a printed circuit board for the project. Leap two may be wading into working with microcontrollers — I am quite intrigued by the Arduino platform. Visions of building a sun tracking platform for the solar oven are in my head.

Meanwhile, a reader of ours has sent along an illustration showing kit-building in the early days. Thanks, Susan!