Awesome! I grew up with the Radio Shack "x-In-1" kits (i.e., 10-In-1, 100-In-1, etc.) and this is really cool to me! I would just encourage you guys to consider slightly more advanced circuits with resistors, capacitors, diodes and maybe even transistors to feed the kids after they have fun with these kits. One circuit that really had an impact on me as a child was the "electric organ" where you made a heavy line on a piece of paper with a pencil and then used that as a potentiometer that controlled the pitch of an oscillator -- you obviously wouldn't want to have them build that whole oscillator circuit, but demonstrating electrical resistance in such a fun way really stimulated my brain to think of electronics as something I could reach and put my hands around -- literally! Every little place we can take the complexities of technology and expose bits of it in digestible and fun ways is a win for our future, especially amongst minorities and girls who are underrepresented in STEM. Great work!
Awesome! I grew up with the Radio Shack "x-In-1" kits (i.e., 10-In-1, 100-In-1, etc.) and this is really cool to me! I would just encourage you guys to consider slightly more advanced circuits with resistors, capacitors, diodes and maybe even transistors to feed the kids after they have fun with these kits.
One circuit that really had an impact on me as a child was the "electric organ" where you made a heavy line on a piece of paper with a pencil and then used that as a potentiometer that controlled the pitch of an oscillator -- you obviously wouldn't want to have them build that whole oscillator circuit, but demonstrating electrical resistance in such a fun way really stimulated my brain to think of electronics as something I could reach and put my hands around -- literally! Every little place we can take the complexities of technology and expose bits of it in digestible and fun ways is a win for our future, especially amongst minorities and girls who are underrepresented in STEM.
Great work!
Brilliant! You should contact all the teacher supply catalog companies and increase outreach to school physics and physical science departments.
Like the idea, but you can certainly go beyond LED circuits!
Is she feminist?