New Velleman Scope Kits

Just wanted to pass along these two new Oscilloscope kits from Velleman Electronics.

Educational LCD Oscilloscope Electronic Kit - Build your own scope!

This is rated a Level 5 build by Velleman so previous kit experience is helpful.
Velleman# EDU-08


Oscilloscope Tutor Kit - A helpful kit to visualize the signals on your scope from different parts of the circuit.

Vellman# EDU06

A few cool kits to learn electronics.

I am getting back into the swing of things after taking some away time from the blog.
Between graduations and looking for a new car for a first time driver, things have been busy, real busy.
But its always nice to take a break every now and than.

On this cloudy July 4th here in NJ, the forecast is calling for a rainy day.
I am hoping for it to brighten up this afternoon and set up a patio station to get on the air.

Enjoy your day!

Digital Clock Kits

Here is a very cool looking clock kit built into a Ice Tube I came across yesterday web surfing.

This kit is available from the Make store on sale for twenty dollars off at $65.00.
http://www.makershed.com/product_p/mkad16.htm

Velleman also offers a digital clock kit but not as sharp looking.

But with a price under $30.00 this might fit your budget.
http://j-tron.com/product/Digital_LED_Clock.html

This last digital clock kit I built was a Heathkit, must have been around 12-13 years old and it worked!

Might be time to build another just for the fun of it.

New Velleman USA Site

One of my favorite kit sources is Velleman, Inc.

The just came out with a new website that is easier to get around. Velleman is also one of the few manufacturers that is always coming out with new kits and products in general. I have built a number of their kits and they are first class and so far worked for me without any troubleshooting or missing components. That is a hassle when you sit down to start a new build and find you were shorted an item or two.

Here is the Velleman link:

http://www.vellemanusa.com/home/

Saturday Night Soldering

Fired up the soldering iron last night and put together the Velleman Super Stereo Ear kit# MK136.

The stereo audio amplifier boosts sound 50 times and looks like fun kit to mess around with. Kit consists of 30 or so components that are soldered on a screen PC board. Assembly is straight forward and easy. Total build time was 90 minutes at a slow pace.

The kit is built around part number NE5532, dual low-noise high speed audio operational amplifier 8 pin dip. Per Fairchild Semi data sheet: The high small signal and power bandwidth provides superior performance in high quality Amp, all control circuits, and telephone applications. Kit also includes two microphones and a 3 cell battery holder that gets attached to the board. Only items required is head phones and batteries. I used a pair of old Walkman type head phones I had.

Time for the smoke test, a flick of the slide switch and the small LED came to life and turned a nice color red. Now with headphones in place and a slight turn of the potentiometer and the sounds around me came to life in stereo.

I took the stereo ear outside in the dark but only heard a car go by. I will have to take this out during the day and see what kind of gossip comes across. Maybe even add two paper towel type tubes to each microphone to aim in the direct of sounds in a distance.

The price is about $9.00 from J-Tron, Inc.

Will post more updates with this kit in the future.

Velleman Help Forum

Here is a handy link if you have any questions or need more detailed information on a Velleman kit or product.

Velleman Projects Service Forum

http://forum.velleman.be/index.php