Snap Circuits PRO SC-500, More information available..
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More information available on the web
I just played with this (Snap Circuits Junior) for the first time and came looking to buy one for my kids.
In response to the person who said the manuals have errors, see the web site http://www.snapcircuits.net/ (and also http://www.elenco.com/ as mentioned below.) In particular there is a page that gives corrections to all the manuals: http://www.snapcircuits.net/updates.doc .
Another concern I had is which kit to buy: Junior, Pro, etc.? On the snapcircuits web site they have a price list for replacement parts and upgrade kits. For the difference in price between the kits you can upgrade from one to the next so this takes some of the worry about of the purchase (for me at least). http://www.snapcircuits.net/scparts.pdf
Update (5/19/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen.
The featured review for this product, Snap Circuits PRO SC-500 Toy Jun 12, 2006, was written by Eric Verwillow.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Posted on: March 12, 2010
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Reviews (2)
Eric Verwillow
February 4th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
More information available on the web
Rated 5 stars.
David Cortesi
February 21st, 2010 at 1:18 am
You can read the manuals before buying!
Very much to the manufacturer’s credit, the manuals that come with most Snapz products are online as pdf files. See http://www.elenco.com and click “User Manuals.”
If you examine the manuals for this “Snapz Pro” product — which is apparently called the SC-500 on the manufacturer site — you will find that the entertainment value should be fairly high, there are a lot of whizzy gimmicks you can build. However the educational value — in terms of learning anything whatever about electronics — is about zero. All you do is match the color and shape of the components to a picture and snap them together. There is no attempt to differentiate the components other than by color and shape — the relative meanings and functions of, for example, a “resistor” versus a “capacitor” versus an “FM radio chip” are simply not explained. It’s just so many brightly colored units that are to be connected in a directed pattern.
The projects are not graded from simple to complex, the first ones in the manual are quite elaborate but simpler ones appear later on.
The same company also offers electronic training courses using the same components but with teaching manuals that are graded from simple to complex and do teach the meanings of the components, but this is not one of those.
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