Elenco Snap Circuits Extreme SC-750 Electronics Exploration Kit & Electronics Exploration Kit | Over 20 Stem & Brick Projects | Full Color Project Manual | 20 Parts | 75 BRIC-2-Snap Adapters

The media could not be loaded.  My six-year-old son, Jason, loves this set so much that he wanted to write the review. I told him he needed to read his review for a video, too, which he thought was cool (but scary). Here's what he wrote--you can see him reading it in the video since he got pretty nervous about trying to memorize it, which is still way better than I could have done at his age. All the words were written by him in about 20 minutes and he only spelled one word incorrectly.Here goes:Hi, I'm Jason and I'm six. Here are three reasons that I like Snap Circuits 3D.1. You can build upwards.2. There is also a light tunnel that actually looks like a tunnel, a sensing mirror, a horn, and a projector.3. It contains 50 parts and you can build over 150 exiting [this was the mispelling] projects like the three walled house and the angled roof house.[Steve's note: we have the 750 piece SnapCircuits set that Jason's older siblings got started with, so this new set works well with that one, too. Jason is very glad to have one of his "own" to play with without asking permission!]

My goal this summer was to find something for each grandchild that would be fun, that they could play with on their own when it was too hot to play outside and to stay out of Mom's hair. I thought my real challenge would be my 13 year old grandson. He is very smart (currently taking pre-college courses) but he gets bored easily. His Mom didn't give me many ideas or suggestions, she did turn me lose. This set was above the budget I had set for each grandchild, but I decided they haven't had much, especially with schools being closed, so I raised the budget for each child. This Snap Circuits Pro SC-500 Electronics Exploration Kit was definitely not only worth every dollar but every penny! His Mom video taped him opening his package from Amazon. He just sat with this 'O' expression on his face for about 5 minutes. You could tell he was speechless! When he was finally able to talk, he was even happier when he figured out that this set would work with the 100 piece set he already had. For those of you that haven't been around teenagers, some days, you are lucky if you get a grunt, let alone a smile out of them. This family doesn't have or get a lot of extras because they decided it's more important to have Mom at home to raise the children. This Grandma tries to make magic happen when she can. His reaction was so genuine and honest, and to me, that is worth more than any dollar amount.

I'm torn. On the one hand, this product is brilliant -- a wonderful toy to expose kids to electronics.On the other hand:1). In many cases the components don't function as they are meant to making it the instruction booklet very frustrating for a child to work through. Example: one of the first projects is a circuit with a lamp and resistor in series. The lamp is supposed to light up, but doesn't. The set is meant to be an introduction to electronics so it's a bummer to have to get out a multimeter and start troubleshooting the components immediately (I verified the problem is with the lamp).2). When you open the box you'll see a request from the manufacturer to contact them rather than the retailer in the event of a problem. The difficulty is nobody answers the phone and nobody returns your call.The magic of this set is that it has the potential to spark interest in electronics among youngsters. Poor quality control and customer service extinguishes the spark. I'm rooting for this product and company so I hope they get their act together.My advice: if you run into a problem, return the set to Amazon and don't waste your time with the manufacturer.

My 9-year old son and 7-year old daughter love this thing, heck, I love this thing!The after-school care that my kids go to has the less expensive model (the SC-300) and the kids were always playing with this, so when Christmas 2014 rolled around, I knew exactly what to get my kids. They’ve had 7 months to play and build and imaginate (yup, that’s a new word) with this kit and they’ve absolutely loved it. I remember as a kid having a similar electronics kit that I spent much of my youth playing with, and I think I was just as excited to get this as my kids were. It’s a little pricey, but after seeing how much all the kids at after-school care played with it—and being able to view it in person—I knew that it was worth it.The kit is very well laid out and there are plastic blow-molded trays that hold all the pieces together. This makes it very easy to tell if you’re missing any pieces. There a 5 books of designs chock full of things for the kids to build and the instructions are very easy to understand and all the electronic components are clearly marked.One of the coolest things about this kit is it comes with hardware (a cable) that connects to your PC or laptop via the microphone port that turns your computer into an oscilloscope! It’s basic stuff, but it works very well I and really takes this kit to a whole new level. It’s really educational being able to show the kids voltages and currents and waveforms on the computer screen. It pulls together nicely the ability for the kids to physically see what’s happening (motors turning, LEDs flashing), and see why it’s happening (voltages/waveforms) on the oscilloscope.Now, you know you’ve got something good when the kids start taking apart old toys (anything with a motor in it) and start adding on to this kit with pieces of wire (from the same cannibalized toy). Real MacGyver stuff going on here! The kids have even joined forces and connected their kit with friend’s kits—just make sure you have all your parts before the kids leave!I’ve read some other reviews that are little hard on this kit and that it doesn’t really teach kids about electronics—that this kit it to “cartoony” and more of a puzzle than anything. Is this kit fun? You betcha. Is there learning and teaching happening? Absolutely. Are my kids going to learn about Maxwell’s equation, Lorentz’s law, Gauss’ law? Probably not. I’m an electrical engineer and I can see the fun and educational aspects that this kit provides. If your kids outgrow this and want something more advanced, than by all means get one of the more technical kits that are available. When you were teaching your kids to read, you didn’t start with Tolstoy, did you?This is a fantabulous kit for kids and I’m very happy I purchased it. It’s well built, well thought out, and is definitely one of those toys that your children one day will blow the dust off the box and tell their children, “Look at this toy I had when I was your age!”

This is an excellent product for enquiring minds. I have purchased both the junior set and the electronics discovery kit and have been impressed with the quality of both. The kits are strong and durable and my grandson has had endless fun building the various circuits. He has been able to use the knowledge he has learnt to help with school projects. Snap circuits make learning fun and are a great educational tool. I would definitely recommend and will be purchasing more products in the future.

This was the largest Snap Circuits pack I could find and as such was quite expensive but good value compared to buying smaller sets to add together. Purchased for my son turning 8 and he has had SO much fun working through the book, creating each project on his own. Each one is slightly more complicated than the last and he takes great joy in presenting to us what he has created, be it something solar powered, a moving propeller, a light circuit, one with sounds. The fact the pack is so big means there’s no time to get bored and to have “done it all”. Excellent buy.

If only schools had the money to use these sets in classrooms. They are just fantastic with plenty of easy to understand projects perfect for little fingers. My daughters always have a snap circuits set on their birthday/christmas list and I wish I could use these with my pupils.

With no doubt, this is the best toy we ever had (P.S. I am a mum of 5 & 7 years old boys and a "bit" obsessed with educational toys).It was very risky from Santa to bring a Christmas present that was not on the list but it was worth it - SNAP CIRCUIT is far the favorite from them all. Oh, and one 20 year-old was very jealous for them... ;)My 5 year old can play with it for several hours in a row, and sometimes all he needs is recognition from us when something has been created. There are endless projects to make from instructions or create own ones. They love to dance by the music coming from self made FM radio, they love the flying saucer experiments as well as create own ones.Boys love it so much that they just put together their own pocket money to buy the Light kit. At least now they will have separate boards and some main spare parts doubled and will be able to work side by side as well.The only con for this toy is missing opportunity to buy specific missing parts separately for additional projects, e.g. Magnetism, Light, Music, Eco, etc. There are limited options to order spares from official US site but shipping is $35+ and then it is not worth it, the whole new kit is almost cheaper (but hopefully it will soon change).Although when the original box will rip apart there will be one more big investment of £48 for Custom Storage Case to make - with limited space only for this particular kit.  Elenco - SNAPCASE7 - Snap Circuits Custom Storage Case - SC-750 Overall - I cannot recommend it more! Elenco - SNAPCASE7 - Snap Circuits Custom Storage Case - SC-750

My 8 year old granddaughter had been doing "Electricity" at school building simple circuits and had loved it so this looked perfect for a Christmas present. It proved to be just that, she now uses the Snap Circuits on her own and runs in to show her mum and dad what she had done with great pride. She was also able to predict what would happen and to fault find when she had inserted a component in the wrong way round. An Excellent purchase.