Can keep a 8year old very busy
Very sturdy toy, with age appropriate instructions. Very engaging toy, which child can work with independently. Very good STEM activities.

Educational? Yes. In electronics? No.
I bought this technological kit as a possible means of distracting my 10-year-old grandson away from his long-time addiction to video games. There was the possibility that this introduction to electronics would grow into a longer-term hobby with real electronic components. It’s too early to say if this will happen but I can report that this kit was an immediate success. I think the designers of the kit have done an excellent job of persuading young minds that they can be an “electronics genius” by making the simple chunky pieces plug together easily to achieve working electronic gadgets after only 15 to 20 minutes of effort. The excellent book of instructions is so simple to follow. Start at the first VERY simple project and work through the book to more complex (but still simple to make) projects …. that’s the idea that the designers had. However, I guarantee that your youngster will immediately flip to the middle of the book and insist on making a lie detector or burglar alarm. That’s fine, because with your help, the REAL educational element of this kit is learning to follow the very clear circuit plans. Every part is colour coded, shape coded, symbol coded and number coded, so even if your child is dyslexic or colour-blind they should still be able to achieve “electronics genius” status just by copying the circuit picture.What parent will not be bowled over when their little genius appears and says “listen to this” and proceeds to tune into Radio 1 with his kit of electronic Lego? This kit is truly rewarding at all sorts of levels for both young and old alike, but be warned, your knowledge of electronics after completing all the projects will still be zero. It is a fantastic and stimulating introduction to the world of electronics without ever teaching you anything about electronics. This was brought home to me when I recently visited my grandson and he proudly involved me in building an FM radio. At one stage he asked me to hand him the 100 headphone part.. Puzzled, I asked which part did he mean? When he picked the part he had spoken of and it was a 100-ohm resistor (ohms being the unit of resistance) that was marked with is technically correct symbol 100 W.You can preview all the project circuit diagrams and kit contents by going to the John Adams website and viewing the downloadable pdf files. See for yourself just how beautifully simple and clear they are.If my grandson does want to start learning about real electronics then this kit will also serve as an elegantly simple teaching vehicle for understanding how circuits and basic electronic components work.

The Best Toy John Adams Have Ever Produced!
The John Adams brands deservedly has a really poor reputation for producing toys that are overpriced and don’t live up to the hype but John Adams have excelled themselves here and have created a set that offers hours and hours of fun for a great price. Despite the John Adams branding, this is one toy that I can wholeheartedly recommend to others.The set is officially recommended for children over the age of eight years old which I think is a fairly accurate recommendation if you are intending to have children playing with this independently with little adult intervention. My middle son was slightly under the minimum age recommendation when he first received this set, however, but this did not affect his enjoyment at all. He did need some assistance initially to understand how all of the pieces fit together and how they are represented in the pictorial instructions as not all of the pieces are immediately obvious although it is simplified as much as it can possibly be.My sons have their favourite experiment with this set and it is, without question, the one which causes a plastic spinner to fly up into the air. This is one of the first experiments in the booklet and consists of a fairly simple circuit so it is very quick and easy to put together but the results are very visually impressive. It is so straightforward that my ten year old son is able to build the circuit from memory without needing to refer back to the instructions at all and has been able to do this for a year or two.Some of the experiments are not quite as successful and it can be a little disappointing and frustrating to spend time putting together some of the more complex circuits for the results to be less than great. Experiment number 75, for example, is supposed to be a basic radio and takes quite a while to build. Whilst the completed circuit does work and there is an audible radio crackling we have struggled to get any proper recognisable music or sounds coming from the completed ‘radio’. There are similar circuits that produce more impressive results from the small speaker though.We’ve owned this set for several years now and it is something short of a miracle that the entire set remains intact and not a single piece of equipment has ever gone astray. Highly recommended

Lo compré para el regalo de cumpleaños de mi hijo. Aunque la edad recomendada es a partir de 8 años, mi hijo de 6 está disfrutando enormemente con el juego. No tiene capacidad para entender algunos conceptos todavía pero disfruta un montón siguiendo las instrucciones como si fuese un puzle y montando los circuitos para ver cómo funciona el resultado. Le fascina comprobar que las luces se pueden encender y como dejan de hacerlo si se altera la configuración del circuito. El montaje de la radio y del ventilador han sido un éxito total. La pieza del ventilador es un poco frágil pero todos los demás elementos son robustos y aguantan bien un manejo no precisamente delicado.Lo recomiendo.

Mi niño de 8 años le encanta este producto. Ha gastado muchas horas construindo varios sonidos. Vale el dinero que nos cuesta.