Product deal-elenco 500

There are not many vendors of experimentation sets, and electronic sets in particular, left anymore. Most vanished to the begin of the 90th. There is Kosmos as the market leader, Busch, and Elenco, and a variety of small vendors who sell direct. The Elenco 500-in-One offers an amazing value for the amount of parts and scope of experiments one can do. Unfortunately, the instruction booklets are of little help. Each lab has a diagram and a few words of text. The diagram is sufficient to build the lab but the three words of text do nothing to explain why things work as they work. I think for a child or a teenager this set has value as it offers a lot of fun to build pretty complex and interesting electronic stuff, when compared to other experimentation kits, but does little for the education on learning how to develop your own. As a toy, it is a good alternative for some hands-on in a world of virtualization through game consoles, iPhone, and massive multiplayer online games.

You will find in the the 500-in-One a fun electronic toy which you can also use as a basis for your own electronics studies with the choice of your favorite text book. If you prefer the later, however, you can also get a breadboard and parts according to your own needs.

  If you are looking for alternatives, I can recommend Kosmos Electronics Workshop 2 (XN 3000, Electronic Pofi) for older kids and adults as well as Elenco Snap Circuits which is ideal in particular for young children (my 3 year old daughter enjoys snapping together simple circuits which make a lamp glow or a motor spin.) There are also many smaller vendors, some attached to publishers of magazines and some individuals, offerings sets about different topics. Also Lego Mindstorms with its very custimizable I2C and analog interfaces (book "Extreme NXT" shows you how) or the very flexible German Fischertechnik Computing series can be nice compliments (or alternatives) to build electronically controlled machines and robots without tools.
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