https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/03/electronics-for-kids-great-new-book-for-kids-and-their-adults/ Sat, 17 Nov 2018 02:12:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/03/electronics-for-kids-great-new-book-for-kids-and-their-adults/#comment-464206 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 01:49:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22846#comment-464206 If you can get that feather thing to work, that would be great!

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/03/electronics-for-kids-great-new-book-for-kids-and-their-adults/#comment-464205 Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:40:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22846#comment-464205 The electromotor worked brilliantly. I did use a much thinner copper wire for the coil. Otherwise it would have been to heavy (or to weak) to work proper.
Now I hope the kids (15 of them, in age between 9 and 12) will be able to build one themselves.
That won’t be easy because most of them live in a cartoon-world where you just tie some feathers to your arms and off you fly.
Reality is often much more harsh.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/03/electronics-for-kids-great-new-book-for-kids-and-their-adults/#comment-464204 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 11:35:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22846#comment-464204 […] Electronics for Kids: Great new book for kids and their adults – does almost no electricity theory … be quite fun and educational in their own right) this approach does not rely on ICs (integrated circuits) that produce magical results with poorly described … […]

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