Preface

It is well known that early childhood experiences shape adult life. Hobbies have now transitioned from simple Lego buildings to well researched knowledge building toolkits. Albert Einstein said, If you can't explain to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself. This book is the attempt of 3 self-taught professional hobbyist-inventors to use their experience, to teach complex electronics to a 9-12 year old. This book contains the combined teaching experience of approximately 300 workshops conducted by 3 of the authors separately.

Learning, is a process, but effective learning is a skill. In this book, we have started with the fundamentals of critical thinking that all professional engineers use and translated it, to the level of children. We have ensured that the learning curve is relatable and includes the fundamentals of developing the research mindset, that is required in today’s career, irrespective of their life choices.

We also took care of increasing the complexity level of the projects to a level, just within the reach of kids. Irrespective of their technical level, adults can use this book to build projects and bond with their kids. The components used are simple and easy to find in any market.

The time taken to complete each project, has also been carefully crafted to last 1 day. The assumption is that you can have productive fun with your kids for several weekends. Each project has also been kept independent from the other, to give a sense of completion and tangible accomplishment to the kids.

This world will need more engineers, designers, astronauts, story tellers, and visionaries. We hope that this book is going to be the first step in their scientific and creative journeys.