Comment by itomato
5 days ago
Snap Circuits are just ingredients - or a way to develop fine motor skills with something that is entertaining for a parent.
You wire them up to something else then blow their mind by programming an ESP32 to be a switch with a touchscreen.
If the parent knows electronics, that's already a pretty good predictor that the kid will learn it too. But in the absence of that, the kit itself doesn't teach much. The instructions don't really explain the circuits, they just show you how to put together colorful blocks.
If the kid lacks curiosity that’s not something a kit can fix.
“Why??!” doesn’t come in a bottle, and that’s the X factor here.