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When I was a kid my crystal radio kit was beer powered! https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsvolume2 https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsv... Dad bought me Dick Smith's electronic kits when I was 8 (it was an Australian thing). I didn't wind up going the EE route, but I will credit it with giving me the basics early in life so that whenever talk of capacitors and resistors came up I knew how to properly parse the information.