DIY KITs - Survey

[keithdoxey]

2. I occasionally purchase them?

6. I only buy KITs if they do something that I want?

I would also add that of the kits that I have bought (mostly over 20 years ago) I dont think I have built one EXACTLY as dictated by the instructions. They usually get "tweaked" slightly so that they do exactly what I want.

I may have assembled the odd one as per the instructions initially but then modified it afterwards.

[Melanie]

Never buy any.

I'm in electronics for a living, last thing I need is to have it as a hobby as well!

Saying that, I was/am a closet fan of Heathkit (way before my time I hasten to add). Crap kits but they did actually work, but more importantly they looked good - and that's where every kit manufacturer since has fallen down on - today they might work well, but they look crap and noddy (there's another word for you to look up Adam). That's only because an old retired Director of the Company was a friend of my Dads and I got to know a lot of the politics and what went on behind the scenes in the early days. Fasinating stories remembered and recounted over long dinners...

[mackrackit]

I do not buy kits for myself or my children. I figure that if you want to learn you will do it yourself. The kits I received as a kid were a big dissapointment.

[bbarney]

I would probably buy a kit if they came with a half decent enclosure to make them look like anything besides just a circuit board which is all you ever seem to get with kit's.here's your kit now good luck finding a case for it and where i live the word is mickey mouse Melanie

[Pic_User]

I loved Heath-Kits. They always cost almost as much as the finished product, but taught so much from hands-on building.

I feel like the village noddy because I had to look it up.
Again, the spell checked didn’t like it. But Webster's 1828 dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary had no problem with it. Can hardly wait for Monday morning, to dazzle my coworkers. The family members are already unimpressed.

Bbarney looks like you are right about Mickey Mouse, translation.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Noddy is sometimes used as an adjective to describe something as small or childish, for example a "Noddy guide to electronics" being a simplified primer. (Compare with "Mickey Mouse".)

–Adam-