Crystal set its where I started at about the same age... a coil a capacitor
a diode and an earpiece. (I still have a cats whisker in my junk box
(primitive diode) =

Never too young

My first encounter was before this. I had a small horn for a pushbike(with
stabilisers) and the battery was flat..... There was wires in the lego for
making the lights work should make the horn work if I use the power from the
wall that makes the heater work......

It went Poooof... or that was my description of the outburst that blew the
32A fuse in the consumer unit and the wires to smithereens bypassing the
fuse inn the plug by wrapping the wires around the pins is not recommended
for preschool children with no knowledge of free electrons... =


Got my wires confiscated....

Regards =

Steve

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-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Alexandre Guimar=E3es
Sent: 11 June 2007 16:42
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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