I had my son doing production soldering at about 9.  He thought it was fun
and I paid him eight bucks an hour and we were both getting a good deal.  Of
course he would get bored and want to go play video games after about an
hour and a half.  Now I use a solder pot and the boards that used to take an
entire weekend are stuffed in three or four hours and soldered in a half
hour.

He is 11 now and I got him one of the Radio Shack project labs for Christmas
last year.  That is how I started.  Now they use a breadboard.  I think it
was a lot easier for a kid when they used the spring terminals.

Brian Kraut
Engineering Alternatives, Inc.
www.engalt.com

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
Of Alexandre Guimaraes
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 11:42 AM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: [EE] How to start teaching electronics to a 5 years old kid ?


Hi,

    My 5 years old son is starting to be VERY interested in what I do and is
asking me more and more to teach him "how to make boards" :-) I am lost here
and I would like to check if anyone on the list has started to teach the
kid's so early and how I should do this...

    I thought about a breadboard, some LED's, some resistors, a buzzer, some
switches, potentiometers and if I can grab one a analog miliamp meter..

    Is it too soon ? Is there any way to make it fun for him ? I would hate
to let him loose interest and he is very interested now... Almost everyday
he looks at my garbage can looking for "boards", wires and anything that I
throw away..

Best regards,
Alexandre Guimaraes

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