Hot Wires Electronics Set
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Hot Wires is the ultimate in snap together electronics. You can make anything from a flying disk to a burglar alarm, from a voice recorder to an FM radio with automatic station selection or even a lie-detector, and that's just for starters! Simply follow the full colour step-by-step instructions to become your very own resident electronic wizard!

Hot Wires is designed to teach the principles of electronics to children of all ages from 8 years upwards. The easy-to-handle components snap together to create a huge number of difference circuits on the base board. All wires are secured within the components so the kit is entirely safe and amazingly simple to operate. The circuits are activated by touch, water, light and sound, resulting in flashing bulbs, a motorised fan and flying disk, and many brilliant sound effects.

The instruction book contains 112 circuit patterns (experiments), each illustrated by a clear picture showing the placement of numbered component pieces and presenting a brief explanation of how to achieve the desired effect. Instructions must be followed exactly in order to avoid short circuiting.

An understanding of electronics is a vital part of all children's scientific education. Hot Wires removes the frustrations of handling small and delicate components, replacing them with fail safe systems with guaranteed results.

Requires 4 x AA batteries.

Contents:

• Transparent assembly workstation
• Fuses, connectors and buzzer
• Touch plate and switches
• Photo resistor
• LED's
• Battery units
• Loudspeaker, Music IC, Alarm IC and Sound IC
• Motor unit, Propeller
• Antenna coil
• Lamp, bulb and microphone
• Power amp IC, resistors, capacitors and transistors
• FM high frequency IC
• Diode
• Recording IC
• Full colour instruction booklet

Electronics is the study and use of electronic devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles in devices such as thermionic valves and semiconductors. The pure study of such devices is considered as a branch of physics, while the design and construction of electronic circuits to solve practical problems is part of the fields of electrical, electronic and computer engineering.

The main uses of electronic circuits are the controlling, processing and distribution of information, and the conversion and distribution of electric power. Both of these uses involve the creation or detection of electromagnetic fields and electric currents. While electricity had been used for some time to transmit data over telegraphs and telephones, the development of electronics truly began in earnest with the advent of radio. Today, electronic devices perform a wide variety of tasks.