Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Learn Circuits With Lego!”.
Welcome to make workshop, where we check out tech tools and toys designed for makers today we’re going to be looking at an educational circuit set from crazycircuits.com that is so incompatible and lego compatible. So what we’re looking at today is the deluxe set from crazycircuits.com now. This is an educational circuit kit, like i said earlier, and it comes with a teensy, microcontroller and a whole bunch of parts that allow you to create circuits and learn how to make circuits, and what really makes this kit stand out is the way that it all Connects together, it’s got these big fat holes that allow it to either be sewn onto a material with conductive thread or connected directly to lego blocks. That is, lego compatible this one retails for about two hundred dollars. They do have one that has fewer components. That is 50.
So, let’s dig in and see what we have. As you can see, the kit comes with a few of the things you’re going to need. It’S got a battery holder, the micro controller, a series of leds and general connectors.
Some batteries a base plate that is lego, compatible some battery holders and connectors, and a series of circuit diagrams that are kind of like flash cards almost putting the kids together is fairly straightforward. I mean you’re just playing with legos most the time, the rest of time. You’Re just connecting some strips of this tape from one spot to another. They use a flexible kind of woven tape instead of the copper foil that i’ve typically seen used, and i got ta say i really like it. It’S a little bit more robust and it has conductive abilities on the bottom and top, so you don’t have to worry about how you’re connecting things to it. You can’t solder to it, but it seems to work pretty well, as is the lego. Interaction is interesting because the shape of these means that you can’t really build upwards three-dimensionally unless you’re putting these at the very very top.
You can’t sandwich these in between you know. They can’t really go in between lego uh pieces to light up stuff in the middle, but if you’re clever with how you design things and you leave holes and structures, you can probably fit these in some 3d structures pretty easily. You can see the circuits work perfectly.
Fine, the included circuits are fairly simple things like blinking and flashing leds, but you can go to their website crazycircuits.com and find additional resources like code for the included micro controller, which i didn’t dig into in this article uh, and you know, updates to things you know, Like different pin outs that have changed over time and things like that, i think this would be a great kit for like school libraries, because you can approach it. You know extremely simple if you’ve never made circuits before it’s very approachable, but then with the included micro controller, you can really kind of go nuts with this and build all kinds of stuff. So what would you build if you had legos as the building blocks? For your circuit, i’d love to hear your answers in the comments below be sure to subscribe to the website and click the notification bell, so you can get an email whenever we put out new videos, you .