Thank you for your support! I have taught circuits, electronics, and programming at the college level before, so I am excited about the educational impact of our offering. Please keep in touch with your thoughts. We want to hear feedback on our boxes from all subscribers, but definitely the HackerNews crowd!
This is a very cool idea. We have a project along a similar vein at HackerBoxes. Tron looks like great basic circuit education/exposure, while we're doing things more on a project level. These could even be complimentary, so some may want to subscribe to both.
Either way, please keep in touch with us over here at HackerBoxes. In order to gauge what users find more or less interesting, we definitely want to hear feedback on our boxes from all subscribers, certainly the HackerNews crowd!
I submit that while what you and I now see thimble.io are doing is very worthwhile (I found it fun back in the '70s), Tron-Club is doing a fundamentally different and also worthwhile thing, teaching basic electronics, or as they say "Over 252 Circuits per year".
Although I sincerely hope they're going to do plenty of analog as well as the two digital ones in progression they showed on their page; that would be key to my signing up.
Once HackerBoxes.com goes to standard subscriptions (post-Kickstarter) there will be international shipping options. It is a high priority so your point is very well taken!
Thanks Rando!. We appreciate your support. Please keep in touch and let us know what things you like or not about the first boxes as they start arriving.
Currently live with a Kickstarter Campaign, HackerBoxes is a monthly subscription box (kinda like Loot Crate) but comprising surprises for electronics hobbyists, computer geeks, makers, and hackers. Kits, tools, toys, and goodies to include projects like: Single Board Computers (e.g. Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, CHIP), Retro Gaming (such as Uzebox or Hydra), Morse Code Keyer/Decoder, Hacker Multi-Bus-Tool (like the Bus Pirate), Digital Oscilloscope, RF or Laser Communications, DSP, RFID for Geocaching of General Tagging, Analog/Digital/Microcontroller Circuit Exploration Lab, Robot Platform (turtle, line tracer, avoidance nav), Logic Analyzer, Pseudorandom Number Generator, Cipher Box, Software Defined Radio (SDR) Transceiver, Controllable LED grids and cubes, Audio Synth and Sequencer (a la Groovesizer), Brainwave Light and Sound Machine, and so forth. Hack the Planet!
-Joe, Founder http://www.hackerboxes.com/