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On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:44:00 -0400, Kenneth Scharf rearranged some
electrons to say: Check out their website. Heath is going back into the kit business. HEATHKIT IS BACK In The Kit Business! In late August, Heathkit will debut their new line of Do-it-Yourself kits for common around-the-house items. The first kit will be a Garage Parking Assistant (GPA). The Garage Parking assistant kit lets you build your own system that uses ultrasonic sound waves to locate your car as it enters the garage. The system signals to the driver using LED lights mounted on the wall when the car is detected and in the perfect spot for parking. The GPA-100 kit consists of two primary assemblies - The LED Display in kit form and the pre-assembled ultrasonic range module. the kit will include everything you need to complete the project except a soldering iron and hand tools. Next on the market will be a Wireless Swimming Pool Monitor kit followed by many more. Heathkit wants to continue to bring to its customers interesting, unique Heathkit products. Heathkit is interested in learning what types of products kit builders would like to build. Kit builders can submit their suggestions through this website using the Contact Us email. http://www.heathkit.com/ I would not hold my breath if I were you. This is not the same Heathkit that we all remember. Their primary business is selling training materials. |
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, david wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:44:00 -0400, Kenneth Scharf rearranged some electrons to say: Check out their website. Heath is going back into the kit business. HEATHKIT IS BACK In The Kit Business! In late August, Heathkit will debut their new line of Do-it-Yourself kits for common around-the-house items. The first kit will be a Garage Parking Assistant (GPA). The Garage Parking assistant kit lets you build your own system that uses ultrasonic sound waves to locate your car as it enters the garage. The system signals to the driver using LED lights mounted on the wall when the car is detected and in the perfect spot for parking. The GPA-100 kit consists of two primary assemblies - The LED Display in kit form and the pre-assembled ultrasonic range module. the kit will include everything you need to complete the project except a soldering iron and hand tools. Next on the market will be a Wireless Swimming Pool Monitor kit followed by many more. Heathkit wants to continue to bring to its customers interesting, unique Heathkit products. Heathkit is interested in learning what types of products kit builders would like to build. Kit builders can submit their suggestions through this website using the Contact Us email. http://www.heathkit.com/ I would not hold my breath if I were you. This is not the same Heathkit that we all remember. Their primary business is selling training materials. Yes. I was trying to remember if what is now "Heath" was a subset of what existed after a retrench, or if the old company shut down and sold the name and whatever was of value to some other company. I can't remember which. I remember when the kits stopped, the story was "No more kits" in large print, then "but training material continues" in very fine print, but I can't remember the complete story. There was some fuss a year or two ago when someobdy bought the rights to the old manuals and started charging for them. That the company sold off those rights suggests it is a distinctively separate company now, but I can't remember. Michael VE2BVW |
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On 08/19/2011 07:32 AM, david wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:44:00 -0400, Kenneth Scharf rearranged some electrons to say: Check out their website. Heath is going back into the kit business. HEATHKIT IS BACK In The Kit Business! In late August, Heathkit will debut their new line of Do-it-Yourself kits for common around-the-house items. The first kit will be a Garage Parking Assistant (GPA). The Garage Parking assistant kit lets you build your own system that uses ultrasonic sound waves to locate your car as it enters the garage. The system signals to the driver using LED lights mounted on the wall when the car is detected and in the perfect spot for parking. The GPA-100 kit consists of two primary assemblies - The LED Display in kit form and the pre-assembled ultrasonic range module. the kit will include everything you need to complete the project except a soldering iron and hand tools. Next on the market will be a Wireless Swimming Pool Monitor kit followed by many more. Heathkit wants to continue to bring to its customers interesting, unique Heathkit products. Heathkit is interested in learning what types of products kit builders would like to build. Kit builders can submit their suggestions through this website using the Contact Us email. http://www.heathkit.com/ I would not hold my breath if I were you. This is not the same Heathkit that we all remember. Their primary business is selling training materials. I'm crossing my fingers but I don't expect anything big from Heath, at least not for a while. They are just testing the water now and if the response is good they will add to the line. Might be a few years before they go 'all in' on the kit business. I've never ordered any of their educational products, but I've been told that the manuals are up to par with the best of the materials they produced in the kit business. It wasn't only a shift in consumer attitude toward DIY that killed off the old Heath. Electronics has become more high tech with tiny parts that defy kit builders. The pendulum has swung back though, and DIY is in vogue again. Witness MAKE magazine, Adafruit.com, sparkfun.com, evilmadscientist.com etc. The 'maker movement is the new DIY. This will involve different kinds of kits, such as building your own CNC mill, laser cutter or 3D printer. (google the web, such projects are common). If heath can offer products into this area they will scratch an itch and do well. |
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On 20/08/11 20:58, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
On 08/19/2011 07:32 AM, david wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:44:00 -0400, Kenneth Scharf rearranged some electrons to say: Check out their website. Heath is going back into the kit business. HEATHKIT IS BACK In The Kit Business! In late August, Heathkit will debut their new line of Do-it-Yourself kits for common around-the-house items. The first kit will be a Garage Parking Assistant (GPA). The Garage Parking assistant kit lets you build your own system that uses ultrasonic sound waves to locate your car as it enters the garage. The system signals to the driver using LED lights mounted on the wall when the car is detected and in the perfect spot for parking. The GPA-100 kit consists of two primary assemblies - The LED Display in kit form and the pre-assembled ultrasonic range module. the kit will include everything you need to complete the project except a soldering iron and hand tools. Next on the market will be a Wireless Swimming Pool Monitor kit followed by many more. Heathkit wants to continue to bring to its customers interesting, unique Heathkit products. Heathkit is interested in learning what types of products kit builders would like to build. Kit builders can submit their suggestions through this website using the Contact Us email. http://www.heathkit.com/ I would not hold my breath if I were you. This is not the same Heathkit that we all remember. Their primary business is selling training materials. I'm crossing my fingers but I don't expect anything big from Heath, at least not for a while. They are just testing the water now and if the response is good they will add to the line. Might be a few years before they go 'all in' on the kit business. I've never ordered any of their educational products, but I've been told that the manuals are up to par with the best of the materials they produced in the kit business. It wasn't only a shift in consumer attitude toward DIY that killed off the old Heath. Electronics has become more high tech with tiny parts that defy kit builders. The pendulum has swung back though, and DIY is in vogue again. Witness MAKE magazine, Adafruit.com, sparkfun.com, evilmadscientist.com etc. The 'maker movement is the new DIY. This will involve different kinds of kits, such as building your own CNC mill, laser cutter or 3D printer. (google the web, such projects are common). If heath can offer products into this area they will scratch an itch and do well. =============================== I still regularly use a Heathkit ET-3300 Laboratory Breadbord as well as an Ultrasonic Cleaner I both kit-built in 1975. Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH |
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