CHIP - Arduino-compatible electronic educational constructor for children



    Chip is an electronic children's constructor that allows you to teach your child the basics of electronics and everything connected with it in a game form: soldering, proper connection of components, marking of parts. At the same time, working with such a constructor is quite simple, and the result appears almost immediately, so the child will be interested.



    According to the developers, Chip can be used by children and adolescents (and adults, too, why not?) With any level of experience with electronic devices and electronics in general. Chip arouses a child’s curiosity and desire to experiment, and the set can also be used to obtain knowledge from other areas, for example, programming.



    Some training kits are designed to provide basic experience, such as soldering. Others are initially complex, so the child loses interest in recruiting because of its excessive complexity. Chip can be used both for teaching basic techniques of working with electronics, and for learning more complex techniques.



    CHIP comes with a range of different color LEDs, so your child can personalize their Chip. In addition, the kit comes with a miniature Pixel Power board that is compatible with some other elements. The board can be used in a variety of projects.



    What is included?



    • Printed circuit board CHIP (a hero figure is a circuit board);
    • Pixel Power Board
    • 2 buttons;
    • Side switch;
    • Connectors like "father" and "mother";
    • 220 ohm resistors;
    • Battery connector;
    • Two LEDs of blue, red, yellow and green colors (length - 10mm);
    • 3 Volt Battery.


    Time to program



    When the Chip is inserted into the Arduino (by itself, this board also needs to be purchased before use), the child can configure the control of the "eyes" of the Chip by setting commands programmatically. You can do without Arduino, using the board that comes with the kit. After soldering, the circuit can be connected to a PC for further work.

    To teach a child programming, developers suggest using the Hour of Code project .



    The developers themselves also recommend the SALDUINO UNO R3 board.



    How much is it



    The project raised funds on Kickstarter (and only 2.5 thousand dollars were requested), and the entire amount has already been raised. The price of a kit with one CHIP is $ 10. For 25 you can already buy 3 of these sets.

    The seller is SolderingSunday . The capabilities of the kit can be expanded through the components offered by this and other companies.

    Conclusions

    Of course, it all looks simple, and is quite simple. But the project itself is aimed at teaching children how to work with electronics. As far as one can judge, the kit is quite capable of fulfilling what the developers promise, and giving the child an understanding of how modern devices work, as well as experience working with electronics, including soldering, connecting, simple calculations and even programming a piece of hardware.

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