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2 HN users recommended this between 2013 and 2016, in 2 comments.
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2 HN users recommended this between 2013 and 2016, in 2 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
Just recently I spent a good hour or so toying around with Snap Circuits with the 7 year old son of one of my good friends.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000683A4
He's got a lot of experience with lego so following the instructions on how to build the circuits was fairly simple for him. The cool thing I noticed was that he'd get the thrill of setting up each project and watching it work (lights turning on, fans running, etc) and then he'd work out what was going on and how it actually worked.
Based on what he learned he was then able to create circuits of his own design.
But I will wait a little bit more than 9 years before teaching
Why? When I was that age, I would tear apart all of the electronics in my possession trying to figure out how they worked. I never could figure it out, until much, much later. Not because I couldn't have understood it, but because I didn't have anyone to help guide me with regards to electronics.
edit:
I would have killed for someone to have gotten me something like http://www.amazon.com/Snap-Circuits-SC-300-Electronics-Disco... which is listed as appropriate for age 8