Monday, April 5, 2010

Kiss Detector

Mom gave Ethan an electronic snap circuit kit by Elenco this last Christmas. Very fun, very educational, for ages "8 to 108." Anyway, we are doing project #246, a 2 finger touch lamp which consists of an npn transistor (npn?), a couple of resistors, an LED diode, power source and a kiss, or bodily bridging of contacts, if you will. Ethan came up with the idea of using a kiss.

If you have a child who is interested in the physical sciences, I recommend this kit. It's as interesting for parent as for child. The project illustrations make it simple to build any circuit listed. If you don't believe, I can even build a lie detector to prove it.


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