Hey Stranger

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 11:49 am

You're the resident expert, so I will axe you:

I want my kid to have a good, basic knowledge of circuit boards and general electronics. Do you know of a good, basic kit for kids that a bright 9yo could do?

But you probably don't know because you just do this stuff and haven't thought about teaching it to a kid, yet.

Stranger · Post by **Stranger** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:04 pm

Well, there used to be those electronic kits you could buy at retailers, you could build a little AM and FM radio recievers and some other random things. But I haven't seen any of those in a while, I see if I can find anything and ask some of the guys around the office if they know of any decent beginners sets that aren't complete shit.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:19 pm

WeevilEye, man.

Stranger · Post by **Stranger** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:27 pm

WeevilEye, man.

Yeah, that would be an easy to do, one time project he could have fun with.

I was thinking you meant something like one of these:

http://www.sciplus.com/p....dwvmaaw

http://www.toysrus.com/buy....2341281

If you want something that he could try different things with and maybe learn a little from it this might be a better choice.

But if you don't mind helping him out and doing a little soldering yourself there are plenty of DIY electronic projects you can find out there.

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:29 pm

I haven't seen one in person so I can't say for sure what the quality is like, but I keep seeing Snap Circuits coming up for sale on woot and they always look interesting. They're definitely geared towards kids (ages 8 and up). What I don't know is if they are still really valuable as an experimental kit or if they've been completely dumbed down to uselessness.

If that seems too childish, the same company makes some project labs that are more like the sort of thing that was available when we were kids. EDIT: Yeah, these are like that last post of Stranger's that happened while I was posting this. I vaguely recall having one as a kid, I think. Probably given to me by my parents in an attempt to get me to stop taking apart all the electronics in the house.

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Post by **Vince** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:30 pm

They have some of the stuff like Stranger was talking about at Hobby Lobby.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:36 pm

We bought our daughters SnapCircuits. The girls enjoy it, and I figured it would be easier than dealing with soldering, etc. We've done some small soldering project on the side like this learn to solder kit. We also have just a generic bunch of capacitors, breadboard, cables, soldering irons, voltmeters, etc.