It's December 25th, 1977..... You've got this cool kit and just can't wait to put it together! If you're successful, you'll have a real orange LED.... that blinks! Can you believe it? Let's go! Music by The Ultras!
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One of the very first circuits I made at school had blinking LED but I used two transistors, acouple of capacitors and four resistors to make an astable multivibrator.
Groovy Baby!! Ya, I know, a little early for '77.
happy 1977
I'm curious what you'll build this year. 🙂
Unibits work awesome on aluminum. Worked in NASCAR for over 20 years we use those bits on a daily basis. Get Uni Bit brand and they will cut through steel. Just a FYI if u happened not to know. U probably have it in your mind somewhere. Love the show Fran!!! Been watching for a long time. Since there were around 10k subscribers when I found your channel. It’s awesome to see someone excited about how things work. When I was 5 my story got picked up by the associated press in 1980. It spread across the country like wildfire. I had a light bulb collection and I knew how to wire up a house I knew which wires went where. Got a knack for that. But awesome channel it reminds me of all my Curiosity. When I was young I read complete encyclopedias so I would know how things worked. How many kids have you heard of reading encyclopedias for fun? I’ve never heard of another. Keep up the great work Fran!!!!
Wow.. I remember building something similar in that era, it was a LM3909 flasher that ran a two or 3 second interval flash for the shelf life of a battery, just one capacitor and that long obsolete chip.. hmmm maybe I'll have a look on Ebay just in case.
Way too easy to forget how far we've come, Especially now you can buy RGB auto changing LED's for Cents
Кто от Сталкера. Всем привет!!!!!
Who knew "Vintage" would ever precede "LED" Wow… We're old ………..
Кто от stalker'а – лайк!!!
Выходи за сталкера
The LM3909 was my go to for flashing LED's it would run for years on a single C cell, I have a unit I built back in the mid 80's running right now.
You grow on me 🙂 and i mean this in the best way, at first i was a bit put out.. but you are the coolest lookingforward to the next video!
You should put an ornament hook on it and hang it as Xmas decoration on your tree or elsewhere for the holidays 🙂
I'am onboard with this! .. my first LED experience was 1979 as my new Sharp SG400E music centre had some red leds instead of bulbs etc… Was such a great taste of the shape of things to come!
What a rocking tune to build something to. So upbeat. 😁
I have that very same "enclosure" – it came as a set of four (yellow, red, purple, and green IIRC) from a thrift shop a few years back, I grabbed them thinking they'd make excellent (panel) filters or small board enclosures :).