Years of testing with children has produced this carefully crafted set of doable projects. With the step-by-step instructions and highly visual 3D illustrations that successfully guide you through each of the inventions, central scientific concepts are presented so that you'll understand the "why" as well as the "how" of the workings of the following objects that you will build:

a spinning motor

a clicking telegraph

a light flashing generator

a real radio

The use of everyday materials demystifies the way common electronic components work; the following common household items were not practical to include in the kit, but will be needed: toilet paper tube, paper towel or shipping tube, piece of cardboard or shoe box lid, white glue, tape, scissors, piece of paper and aluminum foil.