原文： I give it 5 stars with a heads-up on how to use it, realizing it's not perfect. So maybe 4 and a half..
This is a wonderful product. I first tried a couple of experiments with my 6 year old son - making the flying saucer fly, and the lights change with your voice. He was fascinated and
wowed and loved it and wanted to play with it over his tablet and video games, which is really saying something!!
I next used it with an 8 year old who I am tutoring in general science. He also loved it instantly and wanted to play with it non-stop! And I want to play with it too!! It is a great idea, and fun to build experiments and play with.
It is a really great interactive, fun, educational and learning device masquerading as a fun toy. What's better than that??
My cautions- while the 8 year old did build circuits on his own, I returned the following week to find batteries reversed and circuits not working. I could not leave my 6 year old son alone with it, for fear he would damage the components.
So there is a minimum age child for whom should not play with it alone. And some experiments don't work or don't work well. I tried the dripping faucet strobe and that didn't work, same with a few others. But even then, it went towards being educational as I spun it as that is what happens with science and scientists- experiments don't always work, things don't always go as planned, go on to the next experiment as a true scientist. And that seemed to inspire the 8 year old and appealed to him.
As for those who say it doesn't really teach electricity or electronics, that is largely up to the parent or adult who is working with the child. I explained about current flow and electrons needing a closed circuit vs open circuit (and later about different types of energy like electrical and light energy and how they can be interconverted, as in the experiments using LEDs and phototransistors.)
The 8 year old asked after a week playing with it why there were different numbers for different resistors, which proved a perfect springboard to explain current and resistance using an LED and the different resistors affecting the brightness of the LED - which I'm sure is an experiment (or a few...)
Yes, many experiments are a variation on a theme.. so don't expect 175 unique experiments (or whatever they advertise) but there are enough experiments to go through. Best results will be if you take a few minutes to try experiments out before you do them with your child so as to weed out the weaker ones from the gee-whiz wow ones..
Soo- if you have a curious kid and if you are prepared to do a little explaining and not just hand it over to your child and walk away, this is an amazing kit that I wish I had as a kid!!
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译文： 在刚使用它的时候我想给它5颗星星，但使用后意识到它并不完美。也许就4星半吧。
这是一个极好的产品。我第一次和我6岁的儿子做了两个实验，让飞碟飞起来，灯光随着你的声音而改变。他被迷住了，惊叹和喜欢它，想在平板电脑和电子游戏中也玩这个，这是真的话！！
我在教数学时给另一个孩子玩这个积木。他也很喜欢它，还行一直玩，停不下来！把有趣的建设实验和玩相结合，这是一个很好的想法。这是一个很好的互动，娱乐，教育和学习的装置，变成一个有趣的玩具。还有什么比这更好的？？让8岁的人自己做电路，虽然一周我发现电池反转并且电路不工作，所以我不能把我6岁的儿子单独留在家里。
因此，年龄小的孩子，不应该单独玩它。有些实验不起作用，或者效果不好。我尝试了滴水水龙头频闪，这是行不通的，与其他几个相同。但即便如此，我还是把它当作是教育，就像科学和科学家所发生的那样实验并不总是起作用，事情并不总是按计划进行，而是进行下一个真正的科学家的实验。这似乎激励了这位8岁的老人，并向他求助。至于那些说真的不教电或电子产品的人，这主要取决于与孩子一起工作的父母或成人。
我解释了关于电流和电子需要闭路和开路（后来对不同类型的能量像电和光的能量和他们如何可以相互转化，在使用LED和光电晶体管。实验）8岁的问一周后玩它为什么有不同的电阻不同的号码，这证明了一个完美的电路，说明电流和电阻使用LED和电阻的不同影响LED的亮度，我肯定是一个实验（一个或几个…）是的，很多实验都是主题的变化。所以不要期望175个独特的实验（或任何广告），但有足够的实验要通过。最好的结果是如果你花几分钟来做实验之前，你以淘汰弱者从哎呀哇的你的孩子洙如果你有一个好奇的孩子，如果你准备做一些解释，而不仅仅是把它交给你的孩子，走开，这是一个了不起的工具包，我希望我有一个孩子！！
