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Model MX-907

1) Surprise and Game Projects (Heres a sample of what electronics can do . . .)

1. Wheel of Fortune 2. The Noisy Light 3. Electronic Candle 4. Rain Detector 5. Earsplitter 6. Pencil Lead Organ 7. The Electric Human 8. The Electrosonic Human 9. Electric Birthday Cake 10. Quick Draw 11. Quick Draw II 12. Electronic Safecracking 13. UFO Invasion 14. Tug of War 15. Shot in the Dark 16. Burglar Alarm 17. SOS Alert 18. Target Range 19. Catch the Eight 20. Marching LEDs 21. Turn Signal Flasher 22. Leapin LEDs! 23. Lights Out

37. A Variable Capacitor 38. Resistors and Capacitors Together 39. Resistors and Capacitors Together II 40. Meet the Diode 41. Voltage Drop 42. Voltage Regulator 43. LED - A Special Diode 44. How a Transformer Works 45. A Chopper Circuit 46. An AC Simulator 47. Electronic Buzzer 48. Photometer 49. Electronic Jigsaw Puzzle 50. Night Light 51. The Light Switch 52. Electronic Elephant 53. Capital Letter Displays 54. Small Letter Displays 55. Numeric Displays 56. Meet the Transistor 57. Transistors as Switches 58. Electricity from Sound 59. Electric Money 60. A Push-Pull Amplifier 61. Understanding Oscillators 62. A Push-Pull Oscillator 63. An Inverter Circuit 64. Meet the OR Circuit 65. Introducing the AND Gate 66. Using the NOR Gate 67. Meet the NAND Gate 68. How a Multivibrator Works 69. A One-Shot Multivibrator 70. An R-S Flip-Flop

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3) Electronic Building Blocks (that we build big circuits from)

2) Back to the Basics (of electricity and electronics)

24. Light Telegraph 25. Frontier Telegraph 26. Introducing the Resistor 27. Parallel Resistors 28. Secret Resistance 29. A Variable Resistor 30. Capacitors in Series and Parallel 31. The Electronic Gas Tank 32. Discharge Timer 33. Light Dimmer 34. The Quick Capacitor 35. Electronic Timer 36. Capacitors and Oscillators

4) Putting Electronics to Work (some practical stuff . . .)

71. Sound Scooper 72. Liquid Conductivity Tester 73. Super-Sensitive Photometer 74. Motion Detector 75. Two-Tone Buzzer 76. Variable Capacitor Oscillator 77. Variable RC Oscillator 78. Electronic Metronome

79. Door Alarm 80. Frequency Shift Oscillator 81. Code Practice Unit 82. Light/Sound Code Practice Unit 83. Strobe Light 84. Noisy Strobe Light 85. CdS-Controlled Oscillator 86. Shot in the Dark II 87. Does Money Talk?

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116. The Light Fantastic 117. ESP Tester 118. Close-In

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8) A Trip to Digital Land (A look at the circuits that let a computer work)
119. Three-Input OR Circuit 120. Three-Input AND Circuit 121. RTL Inverter 122. RTL Buffer 123. RTL OR Gate 124. RTL AND Gate 125. DTL OR Gate 126. DTL AND Gate 127. DTL NOR Gate 128. DTL NAND Gate 129. DTL Exclusive OR Gate 130. TTL Inverter 131. TTL Buffer 132. TTL OR Gate 133. TTL AND Gate 134. TTL 3-Input AND Gate 135. TTL NOR Gate 136. TTL XOR Gate 137. TTL NAND Enable Circuit 138. TTL AND Enable Circuit 139. TTL OR Enable Circuit 140. TTL Line Selector 141. TTL Data Selector 142. TTL R-S Flip-Flop 143. TTL R-S Flip-Flop II 144. Transistorized Toggle Flip-Flop 145. NAND Toggle Flip-Flop 146. J-K Toggle Flip-Flop 147. TTL Astable Multivibrator 148. TTL J-K Flip-Flop 149. TTL D Flip-Flop 150. TTL Latch Circuit 151. Shift Register 67 68 68 69 69 70 70 71 71 72 72 73 73 74 74 75 75 76 76 77 77 78 78 79 79 80 80 81 81 82 82 83 83

5) Radio Circuits (Find out how a transistor radio works)

88. Crystal Set Radio 89. Funny Transistor Radio 90. One Transistor Radio 91. Spark Gap Transmitter 92. Morse Code Transmitter 93. Remote Water Level Detector 94. AM Broadcaster

6) Sonic Zoo and Sound Factory (Producing silly sounds using electronics)
95. Basic Audio Oscillator 96. Light-Controlled Bird 97. Electronic Motorcycle 98. Chirping Bird 99. Electronic Siren 100. Fish Caller 101. Plant Growth Stimulator 102. Electronic Organ 103. Electronic Raindrops 104. Electronic Cat 105. Electronic Bird 106. Digital Rhythm 107. Sound Machine I 108. Sound Machine II 109. Sound Machine III 55 56 56 57 57 58 58 59 59 60 60 61 61 62 62

9) More Adventures in Digital Land (Our adventures continue . . .)

7) Electronic Decision-Makers (Hate to make decisions? These projects are for you!)
110. Electronic Coin Toss 111. Electronic Coin Toss II 112. Even or Odd 113. Electronic Roulette 114. Electronic Dice 115. Roulette with Sound 63 63 64 64 65 65

10) Circuits That Count (These are also used in computers . . .)

152. Basic Counter Circuit 153. Sychronous Counter 154. Asynchronous Counter 155. Counter with Line Decoder 156. Divide by 4 Counter 157. Divide by 4 Counter with Line Decoder 158. How a Line Decoder Works 159. Multiple Counter 160. Binary Counter with Display 161. Divide by 3 Counter with Display 162. Divide by 4 Counter with Display 84 84 85 85 86 86 87 87 88 88 89 89 90 90 91 91 92 92 93 93 94 94 95 95 96 96 97 97 98 98 99 99 100 100 101 101 102 102 103

11) Testing and Measuring Circuits (Heres how we make sure everything is OK in a circuit)
191. Circuit Continuity Checker 192. Acoustic Ohmmeter 193. DC Voltmeter 194. Voltage Level Detector 195. AC Voltmeter 196. Audio Signal Generator 197. Volume Level Meter 198. Capacitance Checker 199. Diode Tester 200. Transistor Checker 103 104 104 105 105 106 106 107 107 108

11) Some Silly Circuits (These projects are strictly for fun!)
163. Light or Sound 164. Be Your Own Multivibrator 165. Anticipation 166. Big Mouth! 167. Sound Stop 168. Multivibrator Switching 169. Winking LEDs 170. A Phony Counter? 171. Alphabet Flasher 172. A One-Shot TTL 173. Winking LEDs II 174. Transistor Timer 175. TTL Tone Generator 176. Meet the VCO 177. Sound Out Timer 178. Buzzin LED 179. Son of Buzzin LED 180. Octave Generator 181. Crossing Signal 182. Digital Timer 183. Set / Reset Buzzer I 184. Set / Reset Buzzer II 185. Set / Reset Buzzer III 186. Optical Counter 187. LED Sound Meter 188. Shot in the Dark III 189. Set / Reset Match 190. Number Displays