Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by jlonglaw on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @01:31PM (#9892735)

This is a very cool idea. We have a project along a similar vein at HackerBoxes. Tron looks like great basic circuit education/exposure, while we're doing things more on a project level. These could even be complimentary, so some may want to subscribe to both.

Either way, please keep in touch with us over here at HackerBoxes. In order to gauge what users find more or less interesting, we definitely want to hear feedback on our boxes from all subscribers, certainly the HackerNews crowd!

Hack the Planet, Joseph Long, Founder http://www.hackerboxes.com/

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Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by hga on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @03:31PM (#9893522)

I submit that while what you and I now see thimble.io are doing is very worthwhile (I found it fun back in the '70s), Tron-Club is doing a fundamentally different and also worthwhile thing, teaching basic electronics, or as they say "Over 252 Circuits per year".

Although I sincerely hope they're going to do plenty of analog as well as the two digital ones in progression they showed on their page; that would be key to my signing up.

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Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by codezero on Thursday July 16, 2015 @02:33PM (#9899059)

I'm definitely interested in following this, do you have a newsletter or notification I can subscribe to when the Kickstarter completes?

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Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by jlonglaw on Thursday July 16, 2015 @04:52PM (#9899824)

If you message your email to us (through the Kickstarter page or otherwise), we would be happy to keep you posted. Thanks!

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Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by codezero on Thursday July 16, 2015 @07:42PM (#9900551)

awesome, thanks!

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Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by Timsalabim on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @02:44PM (#9893208)

Here's some feedback: International shipping!

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Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by jlonglaw on Thursday July 16, 2015 @04:56PM (#9899837)

Once HackerBoxes.com goes to standard subscriptions (post-Kickstarter) there will be international shipping options. It is a high priority so your point is very well taken!

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Re:Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit by fit2rule on Friday July 17, 2015 @04:10AM (#9901722)

Here's some more feedback: Get some projects from the other Kickstarter projects - e.g. I'd love to see an Oscilloscope Watch in your curriculum. :)

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