I remember when the cover price of Silicon Chip used to be around $4 - that's how far back I go with it. In fact, the more I think about, I might have actually gotten a bit of change from that 4 bucks. Back in those days the projects were tops. I'm talking about big projects that were complex, challenging, rewarding, very time consuming (some took many, many sessions to construct, 40+ hrs), and above all else you actually saved a significant amount of money over buying the already made equivalent. Nowadays they're all 30 minute wonders. Bit of soldering here and there and you can slap the thing together in less than an hour.

The projects just don't thrill me anymore