Quote Originally Posted by irving2008 View Post
I had a couple of electronics students on work experience not that long ago who hadn't done anything of note with op-amps or even discrete transistors :(

Sadly that doesn't surprise me any more. In the first week on my course (Electrical/Electronic eng.) for a bit of fun they gave us a little car thing to put together which involved soldering components on to a PCB. The vast majority had never even used a soldering iron. I can only think of one person, besides myself, out of about 100 on my course in my year who does any electronics at home which really showed when it came to actually making something. That was quite some time as there's not much practical work... Also noticed that the people who had done A-level electronics weren't much better off and didn't seem to know things I'd consider basic, so I'm glad my school didn't offer it since, as it was the subject I was most interested in I would probably have naïvely taken it in instead of further maths.

Anyway, I reckon I'll make a breakout board soon...bought the components ages ago but keep putting it off. How hard can it be!