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I'm not sure if this is 100% relevant to the site, but has anyone else noticed that you can't get project books any more? When I was younger I used to be able to go down to any highstreet bookshop and get (or at least order) books of electronics projects. Not particularly heavy books, just small (about A5 sized) cheap books, printed on cheap paper, paper backed, about half an inch thick with a couple of simple circuits you could build on a sunday afternoon.
My Library used to have about a dozen different books in with literally hundreds of projects to make. Then the refurbishment came, and they were banished...
I can't tell wether it's a health and safety thing, wether it's some kind of educational purge, to me it's just perverse. If I ever ask for such books in a shop I usually get a quizzical look or a dis-interested gawp before being pointed towards copies of "How to choose a digital camera" and "Spreadsheets can be such fun!". Might have made that last one up, but it's a shame as these were all I'd used to read as a kid.
Is making a motorbike alarm with your dad on a sunday really a dangerous act that requires half a dozen degrees and a warrant from the home office?
My Library used to have about a dozen different books in with literally hundreds of projects to make. Then the refurbishment came, and they were banished...
I can't tell wether it's a health and safety thing, wether it's some kind of educational purge, to me it's just perverse. If I ever ask for such books in a shop I usually get a quizzical look or a dis-interested gawp before being pointed towards copies of "How to choose a digital camera" and "Spreadsheets can be such fun!". Might have made that last one up, but it's a shame as these were all I'd used to read as a kid.
Is making a motorbike alarm with your dad on a sunday really a dangerous act that requires half a dozen degrees and a warrant from the home office?
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