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Creative Christmas presents for the budding Engineer.

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Hello All,


I remember one childhood Christmas, I receive a 'X in one' electronics project kit. Think it was from Tandy. 


​It was the 'perfect' gift from my parents, so many things to do and once you had built a circuit, you could read what the components did in that circuit and how they worked. For my parents, it was days of peace and quite whilst I was joining different colour wires between different points on the board. Sure I even tried to invent my own circuits.

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​Will be getting one of these this year for our boy to see if it will bring out his creative side and to learn new things. The aspect I like the most from this is that he will be physically creating things and seeing something happen as a result of his work. Failing that, I have 'X in One' electronics project board again.


Anyone else trying to create a budding engineer?


Regards,


​Jon

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    With many apologies to Jonathan for going off thread...I thought Lisa and Kathryn would enjoy this picture
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    This is my daughter when she was about 8 with the maze following mouse which we built from Meccano and a circuit built up on Veroboard. I designed it and she built it, the fur and googly eyes were her addition. It was built for an interschool STEM competition at Plymouth University for mice to follow a left hand wall, it was actually meant for GCSE level students - Jaz was the only entrant who wasn't 13-15. They'd had two terms to design, build and test their machines, we had two weeks (having found out about this by chance), the first of which we were away on holiday! Jasmin came 4th out of 11 teams - and was the only one who's "mouse" looked like a mouse.


    Sort of vaguely back on topic, it was while building this that I taught her to solder. My wife was out when we did this, so she missed the incident which involved holding Jaz's hand under the cold tap for a very long time, after which she said "I probably shouldn't show that hand to mummy for a few weeks, should I?" (And she didn't.) She's never touched the wrong end of the soldering iron again...


    Cheers, Andy
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    With many apologies to Jonathan for going off thread...I thought Lisa and Kathryn would enjoy this picture
    f997a3fa8cb166041d19bddff99e2f1b-huge-copy-of-proud-jasmin.jpg

    This is my daughter when she was about 8 with the maze following mouse which we built from Meccano and a circuit built up on Veroboard. I designed it and she built it, the fur and googly eyes were her addition. It was built for an interschool STEM competition at Plymouth University for mice to follow a left hand wall, it was actually meant for GCSE level students - Jaz was the only entrant who wasn't 13-15. They'd had two terms to design, build and test their machines, we had two weeks (having found out about this by chance), the first of which we were away on holiday! Jasmin came 4th out of 11 teams - and was the only one who's "mouse" looked like a mouse.


    Sort of vaguely back on topic, it was while building this that I taught her to solder. My wife was out when we did this, so she missed the incident which involved holding Jaz's hand under the cold tap for a very long time, after which she said "I probably shouldn't show that hand to mummy for a few weeks, should I?" (And she didn't.) She's never touched the wrong end of the soldering iron again...


    Cheers, Andy
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