Snap Circuits Classic SC-300 Electronics Exploration Kit | Over 300 Projects | Full Color Manual Parts | STEM Educational Toy for Kids 8+ 2.3 x 13.6 x 19.3 inches
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Let your child have endless fun learning to build circuits with these colorful electronic Snap Circuits. Each one features more than 60 parts that easily snap together. The Snap Circuits Classic can be used to make interesting circuits, encouraging educational play that teaches your future engineer about electricity. All of the parts have colored graphics that represent their real electronic names and symbols. This educational toy comes with a complete instruction manual and project guide that helps you to guide your child through exploring over 300 experiments. Some of the projects include making circuits for doorbells, radios, alarms, flash lights, laser light, street lamps, a lie detector and a fan Modulator. This kids’ Snap Circuits toy runs on four AA batteries that are sold separately. It is ideal for children age 8 years and older. Snap Circuits Classic comes with over 60 parts to create 305 different electronic projects. The parts, which include snap wires, a slide switch, a resistor, a microphone, and capacitors, snap together easily onto the included plastic grid-no soldering required. Each part is numbered and color-coded to make identifying them easy. These parts combine to create working circuit boards just like the ones found inside televisions, radios, and other electronic devices. With its easy-to-follow instructions, Snap Circuits gives your child a hands-on education in how electrical circuits run the everyday devices that they’re familiar with. They’ll also gain valuable lessons in building and in following instructions. The project manuals include large color illustrations and simple directions for each project. the projects are arranged in order of complexity, kids can build on their skills as they progress through the manual. The lessons start out with a simple electric light and switch project that demonstrates how electricity is turned on and off with a switch. Further along, kids can put together a fire fan symphony, a water-detection alarm, a delayed-action fan, and more. Once children have mastered several of the techniques introduced in this kit, They can use the parts to experiment and create their own customized circuits and electronic devices. Snap Circuits SC-300 requires four AA batteries, which are not included. What’s in the box: plastic snap-grid, 61 electrical parts, and 1 Project manual containing projects 1-150. Projects 151-305 available as download.
SO MANY TOYS IN A SNAP: Make dozens of cool electronic gadgets – all from one box! A safe and fun way to introduce children ages 8+ to the basics of electrical engineering! Build exciting projects and toys using the included colorful instruction book!
AMAZING VALUE: So many projects to make and build! Build over 300 exciting projects with this classic kit! Included 60+ pieces build exciting projects such as AM radios, burglar alarms, doorbells, and much more! You can even play electronic games with your friends.
GREAT GIFT Give the gift of learning and fun this holiday season! Snap Circuits kits will keep kids busy and having fun all year round. Combine with other Snap Circuits kits for even more projects!
NO TOOLS NEEDED Elenco Snap Circuits kits include everything you need to start learning immediately – and more. Unlike traditional electronics kits, no soldering or tools are required to build. The numbered and color-coded pieces snap easily onto the included plastic grid. Batteries Required
AWARD WINNING KITS! We’re proud to produce high quality products loved by kids, parents,and educators. Snap Circuits kits have won a number of awards – including the Specialty Toy of the Year Award, Seriously STEM! award, Good Housekeeping’s Best Toys, Purdue University’s Engineering Gift Guide, National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval, Toy Insider’s Top Holiday Toys, placement on the Dr. Toy list of 100 Best Children’s Products and placement on the Dr. Toy list of Best Educational products, and the “Stem Approved” Trustmark from Stem.org.
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Customers find the science fundamentals kit educational and fun. They say it teaches basic concepts well and keeps kids entertained for hours. The product is considered worthwhile and a useful tool for learning and entertaining. The instructions are easy to follow, with simple projects that progress to more challenging ones. Many customers consider it a great gift for kids aged 8 and up.
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str8moben –
Absolute best educational toy coupled with THE BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER.
I have always lauded Amazon for it’s excellent customer service. However, Elenco in my opinion has far exceeded the service that Amazon has provided over the years.The snap circuits set is amazing, there are so many different, fun, educational, and exciting projects you can do with this set that it is still going strong after years of use. I originally started my kids off with the Green set, but took the leap to purchase this set after learning of the service that Elenco provides to their customers. My kids played with the Green set so much that they broke a few connections with some of the pieces. I contacted the company to find replacement parts thinking that i’d need to purchase them and the response I received blew me away. Even though the damage was not due to the company’s flaw, merely normal wear and tear of my children, they told me all I needed to do was tell them the part(s) and my name/address. They literally sent me 3 replacement parts, no questions asked, no verification, nothing. I was absolutely so shocked that I went out immediately & purchased this set from Amazon. Just to support a company that is doing the right thing. I love the fact that they are focused on the customer.So back on this product…I love playing with this set with my kids, even I learn things with this set. I’m no electrician, but know enough to work on my electrical system at home and repair computers. The projects range from easy to challenging even for a grown man. They are educational and sufficiently different to provide hours of fun.We have over 20 hours of time into this set alone. I feel that this set is better than the Green set not just due to the depth of projects but due to the worksmanship of this product. It definitely seems like this has been honed in over the years, whereas the green set is a newer product.The manuals are great, they are very thorough and educational. The projects are a lot of fun and all are complete with the addition of a few common household items (like water), so everything needed is included in this set.I would like to purchase additional sets, like the Rover, but at this point have not finished all the projects in this set and the green set, so I feel like I need to get 100% out of these projects before we buy another set.I completely recommend this to any budding scientists, and advanced children that love to learn, and any adults that are looking for something fun and educational that they can enjoy with their children.
Elizabeth Wagoner –
Great
Excellent, safe, educational, fun! Bought for a seven year old and he loved it and built everything right away. This is very easy to use and figure out because it has good illustrations ( he didnât read the directions but he managed to assemble on his own by pictures only).
Scott –
Fantastic kit! Engineer and Father Approved!
My 9-year old son and 7-year old daughter love this thing, heck, I love this thing!The after-school care that my kids go to has the less expensive model (the SC-300) and the kids were always playing with this, so when Christmas 2014 rolled around, I knew exactly what to get my kids. Theyâve had 7 months to play and build and imaginate (yup, thatâs a new word) with this kit and theyâve absolutely loved it. I remember as a kid having a similar electronics kit that I spent much of my youth playing with, and I think I was just as excited to get this as my kids were. Itâs a little pricey, but after seeing how much all the kids at after-school care played with itâand being able to view it in personâI knew that it was worth it.The kit is very well laid out and there are plastic blow-molded trays that hold all the pieces together. This makes it very easy to tell if youâre missing any pieces. There a 5 books of designs chock full of things for the kids to build and the instructions are very easy to understand and all the electronic components are clearly marked.One of the coolest things about this kit is it comes with hardware (a cable) that connects to your PC or laptop via the microphone port that turns your computer into an oscilloscope! Itâs basic stuff, but it works very well I and really takes this kit to a whole new level. Itâs really educational being able to show the kids voltages and currents and waveforms on the computer screen. It pulls together nicely the ability for the kids to physically see whatâs happening (motors turning, LEDs flashing), and see why itâs happening (voltages/waveforms) on the oscilloscope.Now, you know youâve got something good when the kids start taking apart old toys (anything with a motor in it) and start adding on to this kit with pieces of wire (from the same cannibalized toy). Real MacGyver stuff going on here! The kids have even joined forces and connected their kit with friendâs kitsâjust make sure you have all your parts before the kids leave!Iâve read some other reviews that are little hard on this kit and that it doesnât really teach kids about electronicsâthat this kit it to âcartoonyâ and more of a puzzle than anything. Is this kit fun? You betcha. Is there learning and teaching happening? Absolutely. Are my kids going to learn about Maxwellâs equation, Lorentzâs law, Gaussâ law? Probably not. Iâm an electrical engineer and I can see the fun and educational aspects that this kit provides. If your kids outgrow this and want something more advanced, than by all means get one of the more technical kits that are available. When you were teaching your kids to read, you didnât start with Tolstoy, did you?This is a fantabulous kit for kids and Iâm very happy I purchased it. Itâs well built, well thought out, and is definitely one of those toys that your children one day will blow the dust off the box and tell their children, âLook at this toy I had when I was your age!â
Amazon Customer –
Incredible product| Awesome for kids
Probably one of the best gifts. My son is 7 and wants to be an engineer. There are so many projects in this kit and it teaches them so much. Iâm beyond impressed with the quality and price.
Mrs Britty Hawk –
Perfect tween gift; very cool and fun!
Everyone is having the best time with these circuits! It is very cool, and the project guidebook is very helpful.
Sesh S. –
I have been eyeing this for sometime for my kids and when I saw this listed at an amazing price, very close to the prices available in the US, I grabbed it. It also reached me very quickly. Thanks Amazon.The product is designed to get kids excited about electrical / electronics around them. You could pull together a breadboard and several of these components at a much lower price. You would be still stuck with messy / a little unsafe soldering etc. or with ugly wires sticking around. While for some, that could be well be the ‘charm’ of ‘rolling up your sleeves’, I don’t believe that is a great first introduction. Because much of the bandwidth will be spent trying to ‘make it work’.Now this on the other hand, has really high quality board and parts. The manuals (there are 5 of them with this set!!) are clear and easy to follow. There is enough basic information on not just ‘what’ but ‘why’ you do them. For those who want more detailed information, you could easily pull more content online from the web.The way I chose to use it, was to get the kids (11 and 5 years) to pull together anything that caught their fancy from the hundreds available. They started attempting the very complicated stuff, but quickly agreed they would rather go in sequential order 🙂 The ‘experiments’ are organized in sequential order of difficulty / complexity. When they pulled it together, they got great satisfaction from making the bulbs flash / sirens beep etc. I would then ask them ‘why they think it happened’. So without getting into complicated IC circuitry which would be above them, they started understanding the need for logical gates and how circuits work or computers ‘think’. I then asked my 5 year old what logical ‘gates’ (OR, AND, XOR) etc. he would use for him and his friends to reach the play park and use various equipment (swing : only one allowed at a time, see saw : perforce needs two etc.) This was great fun for him and terrific learning as well. My 11 year old is now trying to seriously decide whether the ‘oscilloscope’ principle is best served for engineers or doctors.. and therefore what she should become when she grows up :-)Absolutely love it!! I wish I had these things when I was growing up.
Klim –
My grandson always played with the snap circuits whenever he come over to my place ever since I bought it for him. He will do different projects from the one listed in the books.
Jaime Dario Olguin Flores –
Diviértete jugando, entretenido y con mucho aprendizaje de por medio, viene en inglés con mucha explicación cientÃfica e imagines para guiarte
Sunil Kumar –
This is amazing but if you buy the smaller versions, it will get boring too quick. This has the possibility of many engaging projects, even a FM radio. My 8 year old enjoys creating many projects with it and also learns what no to do by reading the books to avoid short circuits. The instruction books are very well made. Good job Elenco 🙂
QPS Adventurer –
This I got as a gift for my partner. She is not technically inclined but the plans are easy to follow. Being able to build something that works and does something really encourages the user. It also gives me chance to explain what each component is doing to make the circuit work.If you have a kid interested in electronics or as in our case an older adult trying to learn about something new this is great.The kits themselves are well built and reasonably robust.