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Dev log, how the kit works, and the history behind the campaigns.

  1. RadioShack used to sell kids this madness

    The Modern Rogue dug the old Science Fair kits out of the closet and put them on camera. If you want to know what Ohmsville is recreating, start here.

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  2. The kit has a name: Ohmsville

    Circuit City was a placeholder and someone else's trademark. The lab is called Ohmsville now, the board is called the Spring Terminal, and everything lives at ohmsville.com.

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  3. Why the tone dies in the dark

    Experiment 5 swaps a resistor for a photocell and the pitch follows the light. Cover the cell and the tone stops. Here is what starves.

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  4. Ohmsville is live

    The early-80s spring-terminal electronics lab, running in your browser. Here is what is in the box, who is teaching, and how the shelf is stacked.

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