Snap Circuits

I graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. But like all too many, I stopped doing pure engineering work years ago as I began climbing the proverbial corporate ladder. Sadly, I'm likely too far gone to get back into any serious engineering tasking that doesn't involve process and data analysis.

Yesterday was my oldest son's 10th birthday. My wife found an awesome gift that he latched onto immediately: Snap Circuits by Elenco. While the product fares pretty light in explaining the physics, just watching him dive into circuit "design" using these kid-friendly, but still discrete electrical components was enough to make me wonder if an educational tool like this could have aided even college students, at least in terms of general EE concepts for circuit design. It really is pretty nifty.

I may have to, uh, borrow the kit and bring it to work for, um, additional research. Yeah, that's the ticket.