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This educational kit is loaded with more than 300 projects to build. For example, kids can learn how transistors and capacitors function, and how to make time-delay circuits. In addition, this version includes circuits showing how oscillators and photo sensors work. Projects involve an AM Radio, Burglar Alarm, Radio Announcer and more. Contains over 60 parts. Requires 4 "AA" batteries, not included.
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- AWARDS: The National Parenting Center-Seal of Approval, Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products, Dr Toy Best Educational Products- Contains over 60 Snap-Together parts. Build over 300 exciting projects.
- Clear and concise Illustrated Manual Included and Available Online.
- Build a Radio, Doorbell, burglar alarm and more
- No tools required
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By Richw (Lexington, KY USA)
We received this set as a gift for our son. Although it seems to be well built I haven't found anything that teaches the child what it is they are working with. There are numerous components that you assemble on a plastic peg board according to a picture diagram. There is a brief explanation of what you are making but nothing describes how the components are interacting in the circuit. It's kind of like Legos where you look at the picture and your collection of components to mimic what it is you're supposed to be building. If all the componets are working (we had one that wasn't) and you assembled it correctly... what? You haven't really learned anything except how to follow a picture diagram.
We have issues with the peg board and snap components. As you assemble, the tension can be enough to cause some of the snap-on components to pop off. Every so often you have to stop and check all of the connections, snapping them back to the board or each other.
The set is beautiful and well ordered but my son lost interest very quickly. I worked with it for a while and found it had a bad capacitor component, although it looks perfectly OK. When used in any of the circuits it causes odd results, which was frustrating for my son. The slide resistor works but is not smooth, also affecting experiments.
I think any child over 12 will be bored with this model SC-300.
By Kristi Brister (Arizona)
I have a 6 year old son who loves building anything! This toy is fantastic. He is having the best time with it. With little upfront instruction, he was able to figure out how to use the diagrams in the very detailed booklet to create his own circuits. With simple motorized parts, a speaker, and additional sound boxes he is having a marvelous time creating different circuits. He has even started his own experiments with the layouts to attempt new things. This one of the very best toys he has ever had and I am quite critical and particular.
By A. Olaussen
This was one of my daughter's favorit present this Christmas. She is 6, and although the package mentions 8+ years she is more than capable to build the projects herself. She needed some help the first couple of times to understand the logic, but it did not take her long to figure out how to build an AM radio on her own by looking at the pictures. It is a joy to see how proud she is after completing a project.
One of the best educational toys I have seen. A great success and we will be back for more!
By R. Worne
Most of the reviews cover this pretty well, just some things I'd add:
If you remember those sets where there was a board with all these springs on it and you had short lengths of wire and some loose electronic components - one of those 100-in-one or 500-in-one electronic kits from Radio Shack, this is pretty much the same thing with one major difference:
It snaps together much like lego, making this kit accessible to a much younger crowd. So if your child can read simple diagrams and can snap together some components, he or she can have a working AM radio or noise generator in a few minutes. Or she can wire up the motor and spin the copter blade into the air so the cat can chase after it. After a while my kid started going through the project book on her own and was building circuits to bring to us to demonstrate what they did.
The box is great since it keeps the pieces and booklets organized.
A fantastic toy. Also, don't forget there are upgrade kits that can add more components that can make an SC-300 into an SC-500 or SC-750.
By Jason P. Shald (Omaha, Ne USA)
I got one of these for my 8 year old partly out of nostalgia. I had one of the kits that used springs and wires when I was a kid. I have great memories of building lie detectors, radio stations, burglar alarms, etc as a child.
I saw the snap version and thought it would suit an 8 year old much better than the kit I had as a child. That is exactly how it worked out. He has so much pride and such a sense of accomplishment every time he completes his "experiments". The illustrations are very well done. The kit is definitely a "beginner" electronics kit. Think legos with circuits inside. Which is perfect for the 8-10 yr range I think it is suited.
Older children/adults might want to consider a more tradition kit. But for basic introduction to electronics and younger (or older) fingers that might have problems with the wires and springs in the more advanced kits this design is perfect.
I have SOME concerns over my son creating short circuits or other conditions that would destroy some of the components. With the traditional kits replacing something would be pretty straightforward. With the enclosed modules in the snap kits the whole module would need replaced. I'm sure sooner or later we will be ordering a replacement. If the company is responsive and the replacement cost is reasonable I will consider it a non-issue.
We thought we had a bad component recently. Consulting the manual it has a variety of troubleshooting circuits it illustrates so you can check individual components yourself. Great! Excellent educational opportunity and wonderful way to provide support for "bad" components. The transistor ended up testing fine and when he rebuilt the failed "experiment" it worked fine. He rightly assumed that he probably had something hooked up wrong the first time.
That's right, this kit is teaching my 8 year old child the proper way to troubleshoot AND good scientific method. I wish some of the high-paid professional electronics technicians I work with would revisit the basics that this kit is teaching my son!
If you have a curious child - they will absolutely LOVE this kit and you will be thrilled with what it teaches them.
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