It reminds me of a toy I had when I was a kid. They were electronic building blocks used to inspire the cold-war youth of the 1960s. It was a set of bricks that had wiring diagrams etched onto their white plastic tops. You placed the blocks next to each other in a tray and made what looked like a wiring diagram...except the device worked because each brick was either a connector (wire) or a device (switch, speaker, dial, radio crystal, etc).
It was made or at least put out in the US by Raytheon...you know the people who make radars & missiles. I'm not sure I would take on Raytheon in a patent infringement fight, they could bomb you into the stoneage or cook you alive with microwaves.
I believe you, I had a variant of this myself, the Denshi Block Electronics Kit or something like that. A white base had a matrix of squares with slots at each edge, each component occupied one, two or four blocks. Components had legs which dropped into the slots, and circuits were metal straps. You could make radios, audio amplifiers, oscillators, light flashers etc.
I still have it with the manuals, the original packaging got lost I think. It probably still works too, there's not a lot to go wrong. When my son is old enough I'll dig it out.
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It reminds me of a toy I had when I was a kid. They were electronic building blocks used to inspire the cold-war youth of the 1960s. It was a set of bricks that had wiring diagrams etched onto their white plastic tops. You placed the blocks next to each other in a tray and made what looked like a wiring diagram...except the device worked because each brick was either a connector (wire) or a device (switch, speaker, dial, radio crystal, etc).
It was made or at least put out in the US by Raytheon...you know the people who make radars & missiles. I'm not sure I would take on Raytheon in a patent infringement fight, they could bomb you into the stoneage or cook you alive with microwaves.
Since nobody is going to o believe Raytheon put out a toy I will supply a link http://www.retrothing.com/2007/03/electronic_domi.html
I believe you, I had a variant of this myself, the Denshi Block Electronics Kit or something like that. A white base had a matrix of squares with slots at each edge, each component occupied one, two or four blocks. Components had legs which dropped into the slots, and circuits were metal straps.
You could make radios, audio amplifiers, oscillators, light flashers etc.
I still have it with the manuals, the original packaging got lost I think. It probably still works too, there's not a lot to go wrong. When my son is old enough I'll dig it out.