/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Get a solderless breadboard with jumpers, a decent sized one. Only buy components for a project you will be doing. Don't make a starter kit. When you get bored of your project, you can pull it apart and then have it as spare parts and move on to the next project.

Keep doing this and you will soon build a wealth of unique and interesting parts and won't have anything from a "starter kit" that never even got used.

I applaud this kid for setting his mind to a project and then seeing it through.

This kid is what the internet is supposed to be about. Letting anybody find the information they need to educate themselves to pursue any thing they want to attempt.

I'm not going to try to diminish this kid's intelligence or his achievement but I find his initiative and willingness to stick it through to be far more impressive than anything else.

And that is what we have here, not some super genius...just someone with initiative and drive. And that is what we have to applaud.

Fellow /diy/ citizens, we already know the taste of the fruit of initiative. We should all strive to be like this kid and eat the fruit completely.

Let this be a call to throw yourself completely into every project you ever have a whim to do. Look where it got him, where will it get you?