single transistor projects?

[Tony Duell]

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> 
> [possibly off topic, but what isn't these days? :-)]
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> When I was a kid I had a book, I think it was called something like
> "single transistor projects".  As I recall it was full of lots of
> simple circuits featuring a single transistor.
> 
> (or who knows, maybe it was 101 transistor project; I think I was
> in 4th grade at the time - late '60s)

Thaere ahve been many such books. In the UK, a lot were published by 
Babani Press (they now seem to sell Windows books as well :-(). Also 
things like '50 simple LED projects', 'Simple projects using 7400 ICs', 
etc (I've probanly mis-remembered thsoe titles).

> 
> anyway, one was a single transistor FM radio.  I just remember it had a
> single FET, a coil, a cap, some discreets.  I think it told how to
> wind the coil "in the air".

Presumanlu it used slope detection?

> 
> Does anyone remember such a book?

Yes, bitterly. Along with the manuals for the '150 in 1' electronics 
kits. Many of the projects used 'clever tricks' and were not a all easy 
to understand just why they worked, or how to debug them when they didn't 
work. 

-tony