We were unpacking first time very disappointed with the cheap cardboard styrofoam construction of the base plate carrying the experiment board and the components.
But after the first experiments, enthusiasm hired on the brilliantly simple plug-in system. The actually experiment board is made of plastic. The styrofoam construction is luckily only the orderly storage of items.
The whole system reminds me very much of the good old Philips-science kits from my youth. But the design of the experiments is much easier and faster with the Busch-system and everything is much more compact.
The manual is useful. As with most experimental systems, there is not much didactic forth. Most experiments are but adequately explained. Why is the same faced in the first pages a lot of theory to Ohm's law, you absolutely do not open up to me.
Semiconductors are, as usual, only very rudimentary explains. Without extra (age-appropriate) literature or a knowledgeable Papa is nothing there.
The radio module is unfortunately totally useless. One can thus indeed build an AM radio, but what you learn here, if you do not know how the thing works exactly? A great idea, however, is that you have to wind the coils themselves.
Despite the criticisms, there is of me full credit. Because of the experimental kit is worth the money and my expectations (and my son) were exceeded. I am also the prizipielle similarity has excited (despite the completely different plug-in system) to the old Philips-science kits.
Detlef G.
