If your children or grandkids are at all like mine, they love to make things with the Play-Doh modeling material, or a generic variation. This past weekend, my grandson made “hamburgers” and “french ...

Ask a four-year-old how an electrical circuit works, and you’ll get a blank stare in return. Ask a four-year-old how to make the eyes on her monsters light up, and they’ll happily plug an LED into a ...

Just what happens behind your walls when you flip a light switch? Or when you turn on the television or your computer? Electricity, wiring and circuitry power everything we do, and knowing how these ...

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exlRjDKHGRg?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Adafruit, the DIY electronics website and marketplace, is espousing the ...

Electronics site Adafruit has released the first episode of its new web series, Circuit Playground. The series is dedicated to teaching kids about electronics with short, entertaining segments.

In Part 1 of the Electronics for Kids series, we looked at LEDs; in Part 2, we explored capacitors; and in Part 3, we took an in-depth look at electrical measurements. In this article, we will focus ...

The pixelated, building world of Minecraft has kids all over slaving for hours creating crazy structures and machines with seemingly no purpose other than to spew newly spawn block people into a pit ...