Definitely!! What about a crystal radio? Or is that lame? I am shaming myself but I've never built one.

Over at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Wizards (Soldersmoke Podcast) there is a regenerative receiver kit project from a few years back the hosts have talked about sometimes that I think would be a fun build. Kind of complicated though maybe.

Still, I recognize it is not called the bitpunk[ . ]am podcast so perhaps frequency modulation radio kits are the one true path. I'm down either way. If you want to research and plan a build would be happy to help. Not sure if you already have something in mind.  

 Lol bitpunk.am if only it was a TLD 🤣

Yeah the issue is finding a kit that's like $1. But I think I found one on ali express I just need to test it first. 

 Went back and looked up a bunch of FM, AM,and then combo kits. So much out there I guess the question could be what is the point, meaning, soldering lesson, building something around minimal analogue components, quick build, high quality-ish (with cheap parts) build, or maybe some other goal? What are your thoughts? 

 I think it would be fun! The kits I ordered (not yet received) are a FM transmitter with no crystal. So its kinda mind blown how it works with a single transistor.

It both demystifies and adds more layers to radio I think.

But mainly the fun. On the tape, I would walk through the soldering steps so it would be a solder-a-long. 

 Awesome (hopefully) sub-$10/kits...surely all things now reside inside of a Si5153 maybe thats too dark. Regardless will be fun as hell 

 I think the kits cost me sub $2 :). There's no IC on this transmitter even! 

The most complex component is a NPN transistor :)

You'll like it. I can't wait until they come in. 

 Sounds perfect! Can't wait to hear more about it.