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Children¡¯s ¡°Electron Set¡±

 

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?Anyone recall a product back in early ¡®70s which helped let -very- basic electronics?
I spent -hours- as a young child experimenting with it.

I was ... fascinated.

Before Integrated Circuits (ICs) but no vacuum tubes. Just Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors, and Diodes/Transistors.

It was called ¡°The Electron Set¡± and it was composed of a collection of plastic ¡°cubes¡±.

Each cube was clear except for the white top. It contained one electronic component. Drawn on the top in black lines was the schematic diagram of that component and the leads connecting to it, each line going to a separate cube side.

Each cube side had a
 

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Hi, Bob¡ª

I¡¯ve never heard of The Electron Set, but there¡¯s a similar products called?. ?You can buy it on Amazon or any number of other places.

Regards,

Dan Romanchik?

On Apr 3, 2024, at 6:34?PM, Bill Doster <billdo@...> wrote:


?Anyone recall a product back in early ¡®70s which helped let -very- basic electronics?
I spent -hours- as a young child experimenting with it.

I was ... fascinated.

Before Integrated Circuits (ICs) but no vacuum tubes. ?Just Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors, and Diodes/Transistors.

It was called ¡°The Electron Set¡± and it was composed of a collection of plastic ¡°cubes¡±.

Each cube was clear except for the white top. ?It contained one electronic component. ?Drawn on the top in black lines was the schematic diagram of that component and the leads connecting to it, each line going to a separate cube side.

Each cube side had a
 

I'm not sure if that's what mine was called, but I had one back then.? I recall seeing each component hanging mid-cube, each lead crimped to a side terminal.? I also recall the magnets not being all that great, and often getting poor electrical contact between cubes.
3-terminal parts, like a transistor, had a terminal on the bottom.? Circuits were built on a metal tray which provided a "common" for these bottom pads.

--Joe, AC8ES

On Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 6:59 PM Daniel Romanchik <dan@...> wrote:
Hi, Bob¡ª

I¡¯ve never heard of The Electron Set, but there¡¯s a similar products called?.? You can buy it on Amazon or any number of other places.

Regards,

Dan Romanchik?

On Apr 3, 2024, at 6:34?PM, Bill Doster <billdo@...> wrote:


?Anyone recall a product back in early ¡®70s which helped let -very- basic electronics?
I spent -hours- as a young child experimenting with it.

I was ... fascinated.

Before Integrated Circuits (ICs) but no vacuum tubes.? Just Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors, and Diodes/Transistors.

It was called ¡°The Electron Set¡± and it was composed of a collection of plastic ¡°cubes¡±.

Each cube was clear except for the white top.? It contained one electronic component.? Drawn on the top in black lines was the schematic diagram of that component and the leads connecting to it, each line going to a separate cube side.

Each cube side had a
 

Look at MakeBlock Neuron kits and also PicoBricks




Jim Morgenstern
Ann Arbor, MI

ps -- Transistors do what Triodes and Pentodes and such tubes did

On Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 08:24:44 PM EDT, Joe, AC8ES <jglandorf@...> wrote:


I'm not sure if that's what mine was called, but I had one back then.? I recall seeing each component hanging mid-cube, each lead crimped to a side terminal.? I also recall the magnets not being all that great, and often getting poor electrical contact between cubes.
3-terminal parts, like a transistor, had a terminal on the bottom.? Circuits were built on a metal tray which provided a "common" for these bottom pads.

--Joe, AC8ES

On Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 6:59 PM Daniel Romanchik <dan@...> wrote:
Hi, Bob¡ª

I¡¯ve never heard of The Electron Set, but there¡¯s a similar products called?.? You can buy it on Amazon or any number of other places.

Regards,

Dan Romanchik?

On Apr 3, 2024, at 6:34?PM, Bill Doster <billdo@...> wrote:


?Anyone recall a product back in early ¡®70s which helped let -very- basic electronics?
I spent -hours- as a young child experimenting with it.

I was ... fascinated.

Before Integrated Circuits (ICs) but no vacuum tubes.? Just Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors, and Diodes/Transistors.

It was called ¡°The Electron Set¡± and it was composed of a collection of plastic ¡°cubes¡±.

Each cube was clear except for the white top.? It contained one electronic component.? Drawn on the top in black lines was the schematic diagram of that component and the leads connecting to it, each line going to a separate cube side.

Each cube side had a

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