Collection of vintage electronics education kits

[mikeselectricstuff]

[GlennSprigg]

The 'Spring' connectors like in the video at 8:05 were my favorite at a kid!! 

[Shock]

I always liked the concept of the first Dick Smith Funway set. It came in multikit form or just the book. The pages with schematics were "grid layout style". You cut or trace the schematics out and glue to a scrap of wood or cardboard then assemble. Aside from being easy to build, the circuits could be left assembled.

[Miyuki]

I like this form factor
No messy wires, everything is in neat boxes
And finished circuit looks like a circuit diagram 

[HobGoblyn]

I had a 200 in 1 with springs in a wooden box rather than plastic, similar to the wooden one shown after 8:06

[Shock]

If anyone has a .pdf of the "World of Radio and Electronics" manual (or later reprints) let me know.

I've read the Science Fair 200 in 1 (from the 80's) it focuses on control and logic circuits towards the end, quite a variety of projects.

[james_s]

I had one of those wood cased ones too, and later several others with the spring connectors, I loved those things.

[Shock]

Here is a good resource page on vintage kits.
http://searle.x10host.com/ElectronicKits/

[GlennSprigg]

If anyone has a .pdf of the "World of Radio and Electronics" manual (or later reprints) let me know.

I've read the Science Fair 200 in 1 (from the 80's) it focuses on control and logic circuits towards the end, quite a variety of projects.

This probably is not what you wanted...  but I have a link here that may be of interest to many, anyway. That is for...
Hundreds of Radio-Electronics & Electronics Now magazines in full .pff, from 1948 to 1999. Just click on a 'Tick'!!   
https://worldradiohistory.com/Radio_Electronics%20_Master_Page.htm

[Shock]

Yeah seen many of them before, great historical resource.

Even larger collection of vintage kits
http://www.zpag.net/Electroniques/Kit/

[PeterJ]

THE post above by "Shock"
Even larger collection of vintage kits
http://www.zpag.net/Electroniques/Kit/

is especially good since it has a lot of the PDF manuals ...

[Canis Dirus Leidy]

The "Volna" kit for a young radio designer looks at these bourgeois perversions with obvious disapproval:


P.S. List of Soviet DIY kits, in Russian.