An acquaintance just the other day showed me an Arduino experimenters kit that
came with breadboard, LEDs, jumpers, etc, all in a compartmentalised plastic
box for 28$CDN. Haven't used it myself, just saw it briefly. Maybe you want to
start him out at a lower level of logic than that though, or alternatively
maybe he can move from that to incorporating & interfacing lower levels of
logic.
Something like this, but this is twice the price:
http://www.adafruit.com/products/170
An annoyance of the Rpi for this stuff is the GPIO pins are 3.3V, they need V
clamps on input from TTL at least. Not sure where the Arduino fits in that
regard.
On 2015-Jun-19, at 7:19 PM, Tapley, Mark wrote:
> All,
> My 14-year-old son has mentioned that he’d like a breadboard and some
> parts to fool with, and the pointer below really helps. I have an old
> Archerkit VOM already, and I’m thinking about turning him loose in August
> with the discrete components part kit, the VOM, a box of logic parts, and a
> copy of Horowitz and Hill.
> Is there a reason to prefer 7400 series over CD4000 series logic?
>
> http://www.jameco.com/Jameco/catalogs/c151/P30.pdf
>
> makes the CD4000 series look cheaper.
>
> I also have a pair of old Tek 922 O-scopes, one of which has all of its
> knobs and switches intact and produces a trace. I’ll guess that they both
> need rebuilding; I have the instruction manuals, though, so maybe that is
> lesson 1? Is the TekScopes group the best place to find probes for one or
> both?
>
> I also have one of the 200-in-1 spring-termial projects; he played with
> that a bit, but there wasn’t enough logic there to do much computing :-) so
> he lost some interest.
>
> He has a Raspberry Pi, which he pretty much contempts in favor of his
> laptop, which will play the modern version of MineCraft :-P, but presumably
> hooking those together might be fun.
>
> Should I add anything else to his pile? Is there a series of logic
> that’ll make things easier if he does end up hooking in the RPi?
>
> Thanks for any help! My own knowledge is pretty spotty in this field,
> so please feel free to start near ground-zero with helpful advice.
>
> - Mark
