I agree but I suspect that they fill the niche of the 200-in-1 electronic kits that were around in the 1970s to 1990s. They were inferior than the parts, overpr

I agree but I suspect that they fill the niche of the 200-in-1 electronic kits that were around in the 1970s to 1990s. They were inferior than the parts, overpriced and teach at a way higher level of abstraction than the individual components without providing any real education. However, they were popular because they were productive and gave people a jump start. I assume the same is true for this. Even Forest Mimms books were short on the details required to design or build something from scratch and missed vast chunks of fundamental knowledge. However, as someone who dabbles with electronics occasionally and is a qualified electronics engineer, not that I've ever used it professionally; nothing replicates the joy of sitting there with a pencil and paper for half an hour with a copy of TAOE and building something from scratch without copying a single pattern or module from a kit and not using a single microcontroller or black box abstraction.