Ideas behind Toys.Engineering STEM kits
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We want to create medium-price kits (€50-€70) with the best quality/interest/knowledge/price ratio. Now if you try to search for something like "STEM kits" you’ll see cheap kits from China with outdated electronics or expensive non-Chinese kits that in most cases are overpriced.
- Our kits will show and teach how to make a hardware product (toys in our case) from scratch from what you can get from online shops. That helps to improve your creativity skills and use knowledge from our kits for your next project (weekend or some profitable, who knows) - toys, smart home things, almost any hardware project.
- We don’t like the idea that kits include some custom-designed circuits because the goal of any educational kit is to show how to build and not just to improve soldering skills. If you just get a circuit where you should just solder electronics components with step-by-step instructions, you will not learn that components should be connected. That’s why our kits don’t include custom circuits and shipped with breadboards, wires, and electronic modules that can be connected without soldering All kits are shipped with the most modern electronics (2-core microprocessor and peripherals) that are used in real devices and you will find how to develop your own hardware and firmware.
- All kits don’t require soldering and have all required tools inside
- Kits are made in the EU except for some electronics produced in Asia (sorry, we tried to find electronics produced in the EU but it’s just not possible, maybe in 2028 we’ll be able to do that)
- After you assembly a kit you still can improve it - we have 2 instructions - how to build and what’s next after you build
- We release updates to firmware (the application that should be uploaded to a microprocessor) with new features and all firmware is open-source
- All toys are functional - you can play with them and even build a smart city layout by combining different kits.