“I was surprised that my son was as interested as he was when he and I started building circuits. I helped him with the first one, he gets bored fast so we skipped the reading part and started building, after that he built three more circuits in minutes. I figure after he sees the cool things he can do he will want to learn more and read about.”
“My 7 year old son loves this. It was one of the first toys he wanted to play with after opening presents from Christmas 2015. We went through the first 22 projects in one sitting on that day before he was ready to play with something else. On the second sitting on another day, we went through 20 more projects. By the third sitting, he was putting the projects together by himself with minimal input from me. He is even coming up with new circuit designs to suit his interests. For example, he wanted to replace the photo sensor piece with the clipper chip to activate one of the circuits with sound instead of light. He also came up with ways of incorporating a resistor into the circuits using the speaker which didn't originally use a resistor in the design in order to reduce the volume so his mother could nap while he played with it. One of the circuits was behaving in series in a way that underwhelmed, so he decided to rewire it in parallel to enhance its performance.On a personal note, I am really glad I bought the 750 project version as the projects are all pretty short. This is good for holding the attention of young children, but if I had only bought the 150 project set, he would have gone through it too quickly. My wife and I both love the fact it comes with a case which has a labeled location for every component, and stores the project books. I cannot overstate the usefulness of the case for keeping the whole thing contained and organized. The case is robust, sturdy, well thought-out, and completely invaluable. The components are also all sturdy and both snap together and unsnap without issue. The one thing I caution is that on some of the longer wire pieces, you must teach your child to press them together on the snaps, and not press in the center of the wire piece. Pressing in the center on the longer pieces bends the piece and fails to engage the snaps on the ends, and I'm afraid if he pushes too hard, he may break the piece. It hasn't happened yet, but I have been pretty quick to correct where he pushes when putting those pieces down.In short, he is super excited about the whole kit and really looking forward to playing with it for countless hours. He had asked for a toy for Christmas which he would never outgrow, and when he saw this, he agreed this was such a toy. He even stated that when he gets through all the projects, he can come up with his own projects to do and keep playing with it forever.”
“ok kit, disappointing instructions/circuit explanations.If you want to just snap things together and get a result, this is for you.You won't learn that much about how the circuits actually work or why they are put together the way they are.If I wasn't there to tell my kids how these circuits worked, they would have gotten very little useful info from these.Yes, I know this says Student, which I implies Teacher is somewhere.However, this is my pet peeve w/ these Snap Circuits kits in general.Very cotton candy type of platform.”
“I am glad I chose this package which comes with the sturdy storage case. Although heavier and bulkier, the case has got specific compartments for each part with clear labelling. I could easily identify if there was a loose piece that had been missed out by my son when he kept.”
