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500-in-One Project Lab | 
| Brand: Elenco Electronics
Category: Toy
Buy New: $220.00
New (4) from $220.00
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 20834
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries: 6
Age: 10 - 11 years
Battery: 6 AA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 19
Dimensions (in): 19.2 x 15.1 x 4.9
MPN: MX-909
Model: MX-909
UPC: 756619001999
EAN: 0756619001999
ASIN: B00008BFZI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| | Everything you need to build 500 electronic projects | | | Built-in bredboard for easy wiring | | | Explore amplifiers, analog and digital circuits, and how to read schematic diagrams | | | Connection of components and an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) indicates the information during the experimenting process | | | Includes a fact-filled, illustrated, lab-style manual |
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Product Description
With these all-in-one labs, you'll learn about electronic parts, how to read schematics, and wiring diagrams. Ages 10 and up.
Editorial Review
A short review cannot do justice to this well-conceived, well-made, and endlessly fascinating "toy"--actually a complete electronics lab that could absorb weeks in the life of anyone over the age of ten who doesn't already have a degree in electronics. The 16-inch by 13-inch attaché case opens to reveal a 31-key programming keyboard and a bewildering array of connectors, switches, wires, transistors, diodes, and processors. At least they would be bewildering if it were not for three big books: Hardware Entry Course, Hardware Advanced Course, and Software Programming Course, which total about 300 dense pages detailing 500 projects (memory backups, car horn imitators, LED counters, ramp wave generators, you name it.) This bag of tricks can teach an immense amount about basic wiring, the properties of electricity, transmitters and receivers, programming, and much more. Six AA batteries required. --Richard Farr
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent learning tool January 26, 2007
flamenko (canada)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I highly recommend this product to all electronics new comers and even college students will benefit from it. Assembling circuits is easy and lessons are easy to understand. You will develop solid knowledge in analog and digital electronics including microcontrollers. This tool will let you build skills for assembling circuits the correct way, finding errors, keeping components and wires in a proper way (it prevents you from building mess on the workbench). It is definetly worth the money.
very good to learn on .. July 22, 2008
The President (NY, NY, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
but not for your average kid. Unlike the less expensive circuit kits, this one comes with bags of loose components. That is better for learning, b ut is not good for the disorganized or those kids that are looking for FUNFUN FUN right now. I would recommend this item for those over 17 .. and especially those REALLY wanting to learn about electrionics.
I am 23 and am using this kit to explore the hobby of electronics. I also recommend the book "electronic circuits for dummies" .. which is much better written than the manual included with the 500-in-one kit, and much easier to understand/learn from.
 Lots of features but not a lot of education... December 21, 2004
Jim Moore (Redmond, WA United States)
125 out of 125 found this review helpful
This 500-in-1 kit has more features than the average attention span can handle (I won't re-hash the list here. You can find the complete list of projects online somewhere).
So, this is not a "Well, this looks like a good gift for Johnny" product. Whoever is going to receive (if it's a gift) or purchase for themselves, should be fairly serious about learning electronics. If not, start with a much smaller kit, and work yourself up to this one.
As far as construction, it's pretty sturdy. The breadboard is centrally located and from a layout perspective, I had no trouble setting up any of the experiments.
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There are a TON of resistors, wires, caps, etc.
I ended up buying a couple plastic partitioned containers to hold everything and that still wasn't enough. Pretty much everything comes in an individually marked plastic bag, and Tesla help you if you don't take care in replacing everything back into the correct baggie, or you'll quickly memorize the Resistor Identification chart...though, that may not be a bad side-effect :)
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I did have some trouble with the breadboard itself, in that some of the slots were really tough to punch into and with my big sausage-like fingers, I ended up bending a few leads and wire ends here and there and settled on using some needle nose pliers to feed the tough slots.
The experiments are split up into 3 large softbound manuals (Aprox 10"x14") and cover a very wide range of projects. There are "Did you know" type blurbs throughout which makes them informative.
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My biggest problem with this kit is with the text of the experiments. I found myself wanting more "This is what's happening and why" type of information, but what you get is mostly just how to set up the project. IMHO, it's missing 1 or 2 more paragraphs talking about the Why of the project.
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Ironically, the most use I actually got out of this kit, was to prototype and test some circuts and devices (motors, lights, solenoids, etc) using the breadboard and the variable resistor pots, but I've since purchased a breadboard from R.S. and some basic wires/resistors/caps/etc that allow me to do all that.
My ADD only allowed me to trek through the first manual before I saw another shiny object and left this kit to gather dust in the closet. If you are serious about using a kit to learn electronics, then this is probably for you. If you are looking at it from a hobby view, I'd recommend starting with something smaller.
(Sorry for the long review, but since no one else has submited one, I figured I'd try to be of some help)
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