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Snap Circuits Pro SC-500 Electronics Exploration Kit | Over 500 Projects | Full Color Project Manual | 75 + Snap Circuits Parts | STEM Educational Toy for Kids 8 +

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Style: SC-500


Pattern Name: Kit


Features

  • SO MANY TOYS IN A SNAP: Make dozens of cool electronic gadgets - all from one box! A safe and fun way to introduce children ages 8+ to the basics of electrical engineering! Build exciting projects and toys using the included colorful instruction book!
  • AMAZING VALUE: So many projects to make and build! With 75 parts, simply snap the pieces together to create 500+ fun and exciting projects! Listen to a radio you built yourself along with other fun projects like a voice recorder and LED display.
  • GREAT GIFT Give the gift of learning and fun this holiday season! Snap Circuits kits will keep kids busy and having fun all year round. Combine with other Snap Circuits kits for even more projects!
  • NO TOOLS NEEDED Elenco Snap Circui s kits include everything you need to start learning immediately - and more. Unlike traditional electronics kits, no soldering or tools are required to build. The numbered and color coded pieces snap easily onto the included plastic grid.Batteries Required
  • AWARD WINNING KITS! We're proud to produce high quality products loved by kids, parents,and educators. Snap Circuits kits have won a number of awards - including the Specialty Toy of the Year Award, Seriously STEM! award, Good Housekeeping's Best Toys, Purdue University's Engineering Gift Guide, National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval, Toy Insider's Top Holiday Toys, placement on the Dr. Toy list of 100 Best Children's Products and Best Educational products, and the "Stem Approved" Trustmark from Stem.org.

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Here's a fun and engaging way to learn how gizmos and gadgets work. This Snap Circuits Pro kit builds more than 500 projects. A Dr. Toy winner for the top 100 best children's products, it has easy-to-identify, color-coded parts and teaches electronic circuits through practical applications. Kids can create their own experiments and games, or build their own digital voice recorder, AM radio, digitally tuned FM radio, AC generator, screaming fan, whistle switch and much more. Give your child an exciting, hands-on introduction to electronics with Elenco's Snap Circuits Pro SC-500. This innovative kit contains over 70 color-coded, real circuit parts that snap together to create working electronic circuits and devices. Recommended for children 8 and older, this set offers 511 do-it-yourself projects that will give your child an entertaining, concrete education on how electronics work. With its easy-to-follow instructions, Snap Circuits gives your child a hands- on education in how electrical circuits run the everyday devices that they're familiar with. They'll also gain valuable lessons in building and in following instructions. The project manuals include large color illustrations and simple directions for each project. Grow as you go because the projects are arranged in order of complexity, kids can build on their skills as they progress through the manual. The lessons start out with a simple electric light and switch project that demonstrates how electricity is turned on and off with a switch. Further along, kids can put together a music alarm, different visual displays, an adjustable light control, and more. Design your own circuits and upgrade your kit once children have mastered several of the techniques introduced in this kit, They can use the parts to experiment and create their own customized circuits and electronic devices. Snap Circuits Pro SC-500 requires four AA batteries, which are not included. What's in the box? Plastic snap-grid, 76 electrical parts, and 3 project manuals. Give your child an exciting, hands-on introduction to electronics with Elenco Electronics Snap Circuits PRO SC-500. This innovative kit contains over 70 color-coded, real circuit components that snap together to create working electronic circuits and devices. Recommended for children 8 and older, this set offers 511 do-it-yourself projects that will give your child an entertaining, concrete education on how electronics work.Create Working Electronic Circuits Snap Circuits comes with over 70 pieces to create 511 different electronic projects. The pieces, which include snap wires, slide switches, resistors, an FM radio module, and a 7-segment LED display, snap together easily on the included plastic grid--no soldering required. Each piece is numbered and color-coded to make identifying them easy. These components combine to create working circuit boards just like the ones found inside televisions, radios, and other electronic devices.Simple, Fun Projects Let Kids Learn While They Play With its easy-to-follow instructions, Snap Circuits gives your child a hands-on education in how electrical circuits run the everyday devices that they're familiar with. They'll also gain valuable lessons in building and in following instructions. The project manuals include large color illustrations and simple directions for each project. The project list includes all of the projects from the 100-in-1 and 300-in-1 kits and 206 additional projects, including a music meter, an FM radio, and a digital voice recorder. With these projects, children will learn about electric switches, integrated circuits, digital circuits, fuses, and more.Grow as You Go Because the projects are arranged in order of complexity, kids can build on their skills as they progress through the manual. The lessons start out with a simple electric light and switch project that demonstrates how electricity is turned on and off with a switch. Further along, kids can put together a music alarm, different visual displays, an adjustable light control, and more.Design Your Own Circuits and Upgrade Your Kit Once children have mastered several of the techniques introduced in this kit, they can use the components to experiment and create their own customized circuits and electronic devices. The Snap Circuits PRO SC-500 can also be upgraded to the Snap Circuits Extreme (SC-750) or the Snap-Micro I Standard (SCM-400) with the purchase of a UC-80 or UC-100 upgrade kit, respectively. Kids will enjoy additional parts, manuals, and projects that'll take their kit--and their fun--to the next level. Snap Circuits PRO SC-500 requires four AA batteries, which are not included.What's in the Box Plastic snap-grid, 76 electrical components, and 3 project manuals.

Size: Large


Brand: Snap Circuits


Theme: Build exciting Electronic projects


Age Range (Description): Kid


Item Dimensions LxWxH: 17.8 x 2.3 x 11.9 inches


Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 2.3 x 11.9 inches


Item Weight: 3.85 pounds


Country of Origin: China


Item model number: SC-500


Manufacturer recommended age: 8 years and up


Batteries: 4 AA batteries required.


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Release date: February 1, 2015


Department: ToysAndShoes


Manufacturer: Elenco Electronics LLC


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    • After four years - still fun, affordable, easy to use and picked by schools for STEM classes
Style: SC-750R Pattern Name: Kit
If you're wondering what to buy your child this year that is not another toy or video game, consider Snap Circuits. Elementary schools in my area have introduced them as part of their STEM curriculum and they have been a hit with the students as they are able to create all sorts of projects, including alarms, fans, lamps, AM radio, doorbells, special sound and light effects, etc. I will compare it to Little Bits and Lego Mindstorm below. There are materials and training out there to build more elaborate toys that could potentially get your child a Science Fair prize, but if you're looking for something affordable that doesn't require an advance degree, allows kids to have fun on their own and spend hours tinkering with, you'll soon find that the Snap Circuits 750 sets is the best investment. It is the one my child's school picked in the end for ease of use and because - let's face it - kids love it. A Top 10 Educational Toy award and a 5-star overall review speaks for itself. Don't let the nondescript look and fancy name fool you - this is a high quality, five-star rated toy, voted one of the best of the year. You can buy smaller Snap Circuit sets with the individual manuals, but the price overall will be higher when you buy all five separately. Get the whole set instead - the SC-750 set is a bargain for the hours of fun this will bring your child and your family for years to come. This set includes the 5 easy-to-follow manuals of the smaller sets and all the parts needed to build 750 projects in all, in a sturdy carrying case to hold it all. It's for kids 8-15 but grown-ups love to help as well This SC-750 set grows with your child. As a learning tool, the projects are meant to be done in some sequence, with each one explaining a part and what happens if you move this or that - at least in the beginning. We started working on the Jr (100) set which is the pink manual (1-101) when my son was five and he was able to do it with our help. Every step is explained, once you learn one project you move to the next and see what happens to a siren when you add a resistor, for example. The descriptions are kept short and to the point - for example, that the resistor lowers the volume. One reviewer wished each part of each project was explained in detail each time. As one project builds on the knowledge from a previous project, it's impossible to explain what happens with each part in any one project. This would fill the page with tons of text. Rather, it's a gradual learning process and it's assumed that earlier projects have been done. Four years later my son still loves it but is able to do it on his own, and is doing projects from other manuals. He can skip ahead too as the diagrams clearly show how to put all the parts together - though he might miss some explanations about the "why" of using each circuit part in a particular project if he doesn't do them in sequence. Not a big issue at this age where assembly-type toys with lots of parts are the norm. My now nine-year old considers the R-750 set to be - in his words - awesome. Seeing how each varies intrigues him to no end. He's still fascinated with the set, more so now that he's also using them in school. I've also had the opportunity to see other STEM toys in action. A month ago, Barnes and Noble hosted Mini Makers fairs in stores nationwide and one that was featured was Little Bits. It is probably more along the lines of more traditional circuits, where small components are put together to create alarm clocks and moving parts in legos. It is also exorbitantly expensive. Fortunately some libraries are investing thousands of dollars in buying these so you may soon be able to find them free of charge near you. It too ends up creating gizmos and gadgets, but for a lot of $$. Today I covered another STEM event at a library, this time with Lego Mindstorm. A teacher helped students for two hours to build a Lego robot, starting with the base Mindstorm unit, programming it on a computer, setting up parameters for instructions to make the robot spin, turn lights on and off, etc. This class was free but if you decide to buy it on amazon, a Lego Mindstorm Kit is very expensive and only lets you do a handful of projects. Now the big "BUT" kids have a hard time doing these on their own which is why schools are bringing teachers to train them and companies - not schools, at least in my area - are doing after-school classes and summer camps just to learn how to use this Lego Mindstorm. If the teacher leaves, the kids are left with a bunch of technology they don't know how to use because it can be so complex. In all, either as an introduction to circuits or simply as an assembly toy, it's a winner. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2015 by Justbooking
    • Best Starter Electronics Kit Ever!
Style: SC-750R Pattern Name: Kit
My 7 year old son loves this. It was one of the first "toys" he wanted to play with after opening presents from Christmas 2015. We went through the first 22 projects in one sitting on that day before he was ready to play with something else. On the second sitting on another day, we went through 20 more projects. By the third sitting, he was putting the projects together by himself with minimal input from me. He is even coming up with new circuit designs to suit his interests. For example, he wanted to replace the photo sensor piece with the clipper chip to activate one of the circuits with sound instead of light. He also came up with ways of incorporating a resistor into the circuits using the speaker which didn't originally use a resistor in the design in order to reduce the volume so his mother could nap while he played with it. One of the circuits was behaving in series in a way that underwhelmed, so he decided to rewire it in parallel to enhance its performance. On a personal note, I am really glad I bought the 750 project version as the projects are all pretty short. This is good for holding the attention of young children, but if I had only bought the 150 project set, he would have gone through it too quickly. My wife and I both love the fact it comes with a case which has a labeled location for every component, and stores the project books. I cannot overstate the usefulness of the case for keeping the whole thing contained and organized. The case is robust, sturdy, well thought-out, and completely invaluable. The components are also all sturdy and both snap together and unsnap without issue. The one thing I caution is that on some of the longer "wire" pieces, you must teach your child to press them together on the snaps, and not press in the center of the wire piece. Pressing in the center on the longer pieces bends the piece and fails to engage the snaps on the ends, and I'm afraid if he pushes too hard, he may break the piece. It hasn't happened yet, but I have been pretty quick to correct where he pushes when putting those pieces down. In short, he is super excited about the whole kit and really looking forward to playing with it for countless hours. He had asked for a toy for Christmas which he would never outgrow, and when he saw this, he agreed this was such a toy. He even stated that when he gets through all the projects, he can come up with his own projects to do and keep playing with it forever. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2016 by Eliot Gable

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