These fuzzy, brightly colored, illuminated pets will teach kids all about electricity and circuitry. Everything kids need to build three bugs is in herecoin-cell batteries, colored pipe cleaners, copper tubes, red, yellow, and green LEDs, pom-poms, and more! Step-by-step instructions are presented in a compelling comic book format.
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Ken Murphy is a programmer, artist, musician, and tinkerer who lives in San Francisco
Alexander Tarrant is an illustrator living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Alexander Tarrant is an illustrator living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Ken Murphy is a musician, artist, computer programmer, and all-around tinkerer living in San Francisco, California. He has written how-to articles for Popular Science and Make Magazine, and was a Resident Artist at the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco, where he's creating a year-long time lapse movie of the sky. He still manages to hold down his day job, keeping the web site humming along for his local public broadcast TV and radio station.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
great dad&son project,
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This review is from: The Blinkybug Kit: Make Your Own Electronic Insects (Hardcover)
Bought this to do as a project with my 5-yr old son, thinking that it should be within my technical abilities, and thankfully it was :)
The packaging is great, everything contained neatly in a hardcover book with resealable parts storage. The instructions are very clear yet fun, thanks to the comics style. Putting everything together was easy and fun. Reading through the book, assembling two bugs, and explaining basic electricity concepts took about an hour, with a lot of easier steps that even a 5-yr-old can help with. I think a 10-yr-old could easily do it by himself/herself. My son was thrilled with the result, see attached customer pic. He made the black with red eyes scary vampire one, and I made the not-scary-at-all orange looser who apparently is gonna get its butt kicked by the vampire one, or so he says...
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Blinky Bugs Kick Ass!,
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This review is from: The Blinkybug Kit: Make Your Own Electronic Insects (Hardcover)
Such a great resource for teaching kids about electronics and circuitry! Also, cute as hell comic book style illustrations!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great present for a curious kid,
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This review is from: The Blinkybug Kit: Make Your Own Electronic Insects (Hardcover)
Hi,
I am the lucky parent of a kid who is very curious and just loves to create things. Recently he read about diodes, and at school he was building electrical circuits. When I read the description of the Blinkybugs I just knew it would be a perfect fit for him. I was right. My eleven year old spend two days absorbed in the kit and was very proud of his creations. He then went on to explain to me in great details how diode's physical design leads to their specific colour. A great gift for a young mind with scientific curiosity. Many thanks, Greenbi
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