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Dear Electronic Kit Seeker,

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         Maybe you're looking for a really nice electronic kit for someone dear to you (perhaps your child interested in learning the fundamentals of electricity, a niece or nephew, a grandchild - or even a more serious student - or maybe even yourself). You just want to be sure you get the right electronic kit.

          So how do you know when you've found that perfect electronic kit? What are your criterion?

          As a homeschooling dad of seven (yeah, seven!) and an electrical engineer by training, I know that I look for quality construction, ease of use, "the fun factor", and two critically important benefits: "Will this electronic kit really teach electronics (or just throw out a bunch of gimmicky kind of circuits)?" and "Will the electronics knowledge gained enable the pursuit of further electronics knowledge even after going through the included lessons?"

"A teacher must have
come up with this."

- An Attendee at the CSTA 2007 Conference

          But probably my biggest criteria when choosing an electronic kit is when I find myself saying, "This is the electronic kit I wish I had when I was a kid." (...and even when I was in college.) But that's just me.

          Maybe you base your opinions on what professionals like teachers and engineers think? Or maybe you analyze things for yourself and reach your own conclusions? My guess is you might combine both ways of decision making for a more informed decision. My goal is to clearly present The SpringCircuits™ Electronics Learning System here and see if it meets your criteria for the ideal electronic kit.


Here are some benefits to consider...

* Fast, Fun and Easy Building of Electric Circuits - because SpringCircuits™ makes electronic components look like how they are drawn on paper, and SpringCircuits™ pieces fit together in a clear visual arrangement.

* Intuitive Lessons in Electricity and Electronics - these lessons attempt to mimic how we naturally learn by picking things apart and putting them back together and also by building on what has already been introduced. That's a bit different from the electronic kits that only present a bunch of projects without practical lessons to teach the underlying principles. Projects go away eventually, but principles stay.

* 30-Day, 100% Money-Back, Risk-Free Guarantee - If you are not satisfied, return it within 30 days for a full refund. No questions asked. To clarify, you get 30 days from the time you receive the product (not from the time of ordering).

* 180-day, 100% Money-Back, Conditional Guarantee - Let's strengthen and lengthen the guarantee - if you just can't learn electricity using any part of this kit even with other learning material outside of this kit, then within 180 days you may return it for a full refund. The only condition is that you need to include a statement about what you were trying to learn and why this kit didn't meet your needs. But since you can easily get support from the inventor who is an electricial engineer and homeschooling teacher, you're virtually guaranteed success. The fact that RMD3™ is willing to put this 180-day conditional guarantee like this should show you something about the product even without the included lessons!

* Special "Recession-Proof Pricing" - Choose the best way to pay for you: All at once, or an easy initial amount followed by interest-free installments. Your credit card is not charged unless you say so, because RMD3™ sends email invoices at the beginning of each month for you to click-and-pay easily online (but you can also choose to have invoices sent through the mail instead of online, if that is easier for you).

* No Shipping, No Handling, No Nothing! - "What-you-see-is-what-you-get" pricing. California sales tax is paid by RMD3™ - There's only one shipping and handling exception: if you place an international order.

* Includes "all-you-need-to-get-started" - No buying batteries separately, or this or that separately. It's all here to get you started.

* Assembly is done in-house at RMD3™ in the USA - We keep inventory low, and it is our policy to maintain a low inventory and custom building SpringCircuits™ kits as much as possible as orders are placed. Our suppliers are American businesses, and while they may outsource to someplace else (that's just reality, my friends), we restrict ourselves to those vendors with offices here in the United States.

* Limited Quantities - As a small business, there are limits on our production capacity. These limits restrict the number of orders RMD3™ is able to take throughout the year. Get your order in early to avoid waiting for your fun to begin.


          Before we dive into the details, I want to just tell you what you might be in for...

The SpringCircuits™ Effect

          This might seem strange at first, but I have seen people who experience SpringCircuits™ firsthand and want it for themselves and want to spread the word to others. I've gotten requests for business cards so that customers could hand them out to other people on my behalf.

          Yes - that has really happened.

"That's Interesting. Simple.
Keep it simple. I'm not
a rocket-scientist."

- An Attendee (who is apparently not a rocket-scientist)
at the CSTA 2007 Conference

          Even teachers who don't actually teach electronics were visiting and revisiting my first and only tradeshow booth to take a nice hard look at SpringCircuits™, and they offered some really nice unsolicited comments (you may have read a few already. You can read more, further below).

          It was a really nice experience. They ended up spreading the word to others along the way. Those types of people are my champions. That felt good. It still does.

sample circuit

          You should know SpringCircuits™ tends to have that effect on people - it just moves people that way - when they love it, they really love it. But you'll learn more as we go, and you can make that determination for yourself.

          Since I don't know who you are buying for, I hope it's alright if I write this as though you are the one interested in SpringCircuits™ - it's just easier talking directly to you than trying to split my words between you and the person your buying for.

          So, let's dive in, shall we? Let me clear my throat and start the presentation... ahem..

          Now, if you have the motivation to learn electric circuits, and you think it would be great to build electric circuits that look like real schematic diagrams (and in a fast, fun and easy way) with solid lessons guiding the way, then get ready for a treat.

          Honestly, I think you're going to love this, and the reason is...

The SpringCircuits™ System Is Giving You
Two HUGE Benefits Combined For Something Special
Not Found In Other Electronic Kits...
*** Real Learning Results ***

          1st Benefit : Building electric circuits with SpringCircuits™ is fast, fun and easy, and circuits look just how they are drawn on paper, and they can also be written on with dry erase marker.

         You've seen electronic circuits before, right? They tend to be pretty messy looking even when they are "designed" properly.

          So how to make heads or tails of that strangely shaped mixed bag of components, wires and bizarre connections? How does all that stuff match up to drawings of the same circuit? Tell me, why should anybody have to suffer through sorting all that out in order to learn about the fundamentals and principles behind the science?

          SpringCircuits™ is a unique solution to this problem, and is the easiest way I know of to get the best-of- both worlds: You get circuits that are easy to understand and presented in a clear manner, and these circuits match what is written on paper. Life becomes easy.

"Cool."
- A welcomed theme
amongst a lot of teachers
at the CSTA 2007 Convention
 

No fussing around. No ugly mess.

 (N.B. - I feel like I should add that there's far reaching benefits of "building circuits that look like schematics." You know the main one already - it makes things a whole lot easier to build. But building a circuit is just half the story, the other half is testing the circuit and, if it doesn't work, figuring out what's wrong with it. Can you imagine trying to fix a circuit that looked like a hairball of wires? Guess what? It happens!)

sample circuit
Fill a capacitor and then watch it drain out through an LED

          No other electronic kit has the combination of features that make up this first benefit. Some kits stack pieces and that can be fun. But is stacking pieces necessarily easy or even fast? It definitely can be, but not when you need to change a piece that is buried under the stack. How many other kits actually allow you to arrange pieces together to form a schematic drawing? Not too many, I'd say. And there is no kit I know of that has the dry-erase feature - none.

          Yes, SpringCircuits™ does tackle the first problem of messy, ugly and hard to understand circuits by making the circuits built look like how they are drawn on paper (allowing dry-erase marking capability). You can experience how SpringCircuits™ fits together firsthand below, but first I have to keep my promise and tell you about the second biggest problem SpringCircuits™ solves....

          2nd Benefit : The SpringCircuits™ Electronics Learning System turns dull and boring textbook learning of electricity and electronics into something naturally dynamic which progressively grows the user's understanding.

looking in lessonsFinding the right piece is easy too!

          The reason is two-fold. First, it works because the included learning modules mimic how we naturally learn. Following intuitive learning methods, the lessons are built upon what has already been presented. When new material is introduced, it's discussed in a basic manner for easy understanding. Second, even without the included lessons, if you chose to use a standard circuits textbook instead, SpringCircuits™ can still help make the process a whole lot easier by virtue of the speed at which you can build and modify circuits using SpringCircuits™ pieces.

          Actually, I don't know why textbooks aren't more intuitive. The real problem is that sometimes people tend to complicate things and forget that we all learned to walk by simply rolling, then crawling and then trying to stand-up using our sense of balance. And tools should aid the learning process as well - not slow it down.


A SpringCircuits™ Capacitor Piece

          Learning electricity shouldn't be slow, boring and hard. Since the SpringCircuits™ pieces quickly fit together and you can see the circuit clearly as you build it, you have instant feedback about what works and what doesn't. Instant feedback is they key - just like kids learning complicated video games because they learn from instant feedback.

          Question: So how does The SpringCircuits™ Electronics Learning System make learning electronics fast, fun and easy in a more natural way?

          Answer: It's much easier to change one circuit a little bit and ask "what's the difference?" than it is to introduce many concepts that differ to a large degree. It's also natural to take things apart and experiment with different options.

Click here to learn more about what types of lessons are included.

If You Could Experience SpringCircuits™,
Then You Might Just Become A True Believer.

          You can try it out right now - virtually! Follow the link for the virtual test drive below, and you can start building a simple circuit and experience SpringCircuits™ for yourself (as much as possible for a computer simulation). So click now, and visit the following link to see how fast, fun and easy to use it is.

Click here to visit the Virtual Test Drive!

          Wasn't that fast? It's so much more fun when your touching the actual pieces and seeing the circuit work right before your eyes.

          But there is something I left out of the simulation that is icing-on-the-cake...

You Can Write On A "Live" Circuit?

          Imagine you are designing and building a circuit, and you want to label parts of the circuits you are building. How do you do it with conventional circuit building techniques?

"That's Great.
Nicely Done.
Cool Invention."

- Yes, another attendee at the
CSTA 2007 Conference

          Well, for all practical purposes, you can't. I mean, you could tape on some labels or do that sort of thing - but that's back to being messy again. With SpringCircuits™ you can label things on the fly in an orderly fashion. Add to that, once your circuit is up and running, you can capture voltage and current values and jot them down right on the SpringCircuits™ pieces even while the circuit is running.

          Let's say you had made a mistake writing on a SpringCircuits™ piece - are you stuck? Not really. Why? Of course, your'e not stuck because it's all dry-erase. Erase your mistake, and do it again. Dry-erase means you have more flexibility - you can change what you write, when you write, and where your write - anytime.

          Just like you can swap the SpringCircuits™ pieces in and out of a circuit, you can change how you label them on-the-fly as well. I love this product - can you tell?

          What makes this so exciting because it makes the live working circuit become a living schematic diagram.

          Imagine throwing together a circuit and scribbling down the values you measured before the students at another lab bench could even collect all of their components, wires, and tools together. "Hey guys! My parents love me - they got me this SpringCircuits™ stuff!" (Yeah, right! Wouldn't we like to have our kids brag like that to their peers? Like that's going to happen anytime soon - but it could, I suppose, and if it did, it sure would be nice!)

SpringCircuits™ In The Press

          Word gets out! I'm not a marketing guru - I'm an engineer - so I only picked a couple places to email my press release in 2007 - one to an online site that I guess blew me off (hey, it happens), and another to "Nuts & Volts Magazine."

          But, lo-and-behold, the publisher for "Nuts & Volts" also publishes "SERVO Magazine." And they said that they were going to run SpringCircuits™ in both magazines - Kudus to the "Nuts & Volts" and "SERVO Magazine" publisher.

          So SpringCircuits™ was present in the "New Products" section of the July 2007 issue of "Nuts & Volts" and the June 2007 issue of "SERVO Magazine." Check 'em out if you like.

          But remember, although this is not an endorsement, when any publication includes a product within their pages, it has to say something because they could have just thrown your press-release in the garbage (or deleted it). For me, it was the first real sign (of many to follow) that maybe there's something to this SpringCircuits™ thing after all.

          But there is another group to whom you should give much weight and consideration to their opinion - teachers.

What Do Teaching Professionals Think Of SpringCircuits™.

          In October of 2007 (a few months after the magazines came out), I did my first tradeshow - The California Science Teachers Association 2007 Convention. What a nervous wreck I was. After all, I'm an engineer (again, not your typical sales person). So I went with the intention just to learn from the whole experience to see what it was like.

          I didn't even work out a sales pitch. I just put together some order forms so attendees could take them home with them and mail in orders (or visit the website). I also offered a free sample SpringCircuits™ piece to whoever wanted them. (You can get one too which we'll get to in a moment).

          There was a sales pitch that seemed to come out naturally during the convention: "SpringCircuits™ bridges the gap between drawing a circuit on paper and building the same circuit in the real world." I have no idea if that's a good sales pitch, but I think the product sells itself anyway.

          From the attendants of the CSTA 2007 Conference, I recorded unsolicited comments of those who stopped by the RMD3™ booth. It was the first time SpringCircuits™ met the marketplace, and it was incredible. I mean the response was phenomenal.

Survey ignored, but the unsolicited comments.... well...

          At the California Science Teacher Association's 2007 Convention, the first (and only to date) convention where RMD3™ has presented SpringCircuits™, the response was quite positive. Even the Earth Science, Chemistry, and Biology teachers liked SpringCircuits™ (too bad they weren't my market, right? Oh, well).

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RMD3™ presents SpringCircuits™ at the California Science Teachers Association's 2007 Convention.

          Now, get this, I wasn't even taking orders at the show (just handing out the forms for mail-in orders), but I'd been strongly encouraged to accept an order by one determined customer right then and there. So beware if you've got a product people like - enthused customers are a force to be reckoned with... in an absolutely good way, of course.

          You should know not all of the comments were from teachers (but most were). Some comments were even from other vendors (dare I say, would-be could-be competitors even). I wish I had permission to tell you who, but I don't. If you knew, you'd know exactly why I was smiling at the success we had. If your competitors are praising you, you know you must be doing something right, right?

"That is slick."

"Great idea."

"Excellent."

"Interesting."

"Wonderful. Great idea."

"That's pretty good."

"Neat."

"Very good."

"Very cool."

         I don't know why, but I feel I have to stress this. The quotes above were unsolicited - I did not ask for them (I had a survey at the side of my table everyone ignored - who'd blame 'em - I don't even like to take surveys!) It's so much easier to just blurt out your thoughts. So I captured as many as I could. I jotted them down after people left the booth. Unfortunately, I actually missed some because I didn't start writing them down until I realized how valuable those comments really are - reassuring icing on the cake (my favorite part of the cake too).

          The other reason I missed some is when the booth was crowded. Don't misunderstand me there were times - like during lunch - when the booth was dead. That's just life. Next time though, I need to capture the names of the people who say nice things... live and learn.

          Okay, we've seen how SpringCircuits™ helps us learn electricity in an intuitive manner (the first PDF download). We've also seen how fast, easy and fun it can be (when we took the virtual test drive). Then we saw the dry-erase feature (above). After that we saw how two magazines helped get the word out (thanks again "Nuts & Volts" and "SERVO Magazine"), and we learned about the impression SpringCircuits™ had on the teachers at the California Science Teachers Association 2007 convention (Thank you very much teachers!).

"That's great. I wish you the best of luck."

All the comments to the left and just above are from attendees at the CSTA 2007 Conference

          We're covering a lot of ground, but to appreciate (or not) SpringCircuits™ better, let's dive in a bit further...

How Do SpringCircuits™ Pieces Work?

          SpringCircuits™ is patent pending technology, and here's the mechanics of how it works...

The Anatomy of a SpringCircuits™ Piece

          SpringCircuits™ pieces are box-shaped 1"x1" plastic pieces with bent-springs strategically placed around the sides. Each side with a bent-spring connector represents the end of a circuit element. The circuit element resides inside the plastic housing and connects to the bent-spring connector from inside. On top of the SpringCircuits™ piece is a laminated graphic depicting the traditional schematic drawing of the element inside the housing.

          SpringCircuits™ pieces are fitted onto a loop-fabric board through hook stickers on the bottom of the SpringCircuits™ pieces. The hook stickers make the SpringCircuits™ pieces to adhere to a loop-fabric surface (hook-and-loop). The Loop-fabric Board is a strong durable board with loop-fabric attached to one side, strong edge-trim and corner caps - to provide lasting protection against abuse and wear. Great for the classroom.

          The laminated graphic on top of a SpringCircuits™ piece allows for dry-erase writing right on the pieces. A perfect fit for dynamically recording values like voltage and current, or even just plain labeling the parts of a circuit.

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Making Connections

          To connect SpringCircuits™ pieces together, place one piece on the loop-fabric board. Get the next piece to be placed. Connect the bent-spring connector of the second piece to the one on the loop-fabric board. Then place the second piece down on the loop-fabric board.

          The images to the left show a transistor piece on the loop-fabric board and a resistor piece connecting to it. Notice that the bent-springs are connecting before placing the second piece on the board.

          The top picture to the left shows a close-up just before connecting the bent-spring connectors together. Stepping back, in the last picture to the left, we see how it looks when the pieces are connected from a top perspective.

The Loop-Fabric Board

         The loop-fabric board is a panel board with a heavy-duty industrial strength loop-fabric adhered to one side (we'll get to a picture a little bit later).

This brings up an interesting point - it's fairly easy to carry around your SpringCircuits™ loop-fabric board even with a circuit built on it and running. The circuit, if built correctly, has to stick to the board even if you turn it upside down. So go ahead - show it to the class - show it to Mom and Dad - show it to your best friend - show it to whoever you want. But please, don't make them come to you - when you are showing your work, take SpringCircuits™ to them.

          Okay, let's do a reality check. You may be wondering...

What could be wrong with SpringCircuits™?

          It wouldn't be right for me to sell you something without telling you of any possible flaws. It doesn't help you or me if my product doesn't pass muster. So let me try to point out what I think could be points of concern.

          There are two points that, as a semi-quasi-perfectionist, I feel could be raised. But I want to point out upfront something in defense of my own self-prosecution...

Although I am bringing these things up,
I did not receive these concerns from any customer (or potential customer
).

          First, the only thing that may be under the radar which I think people might question when they first come across SpringCircuits™ is an occasional fanning out of a bent-spring connector. This happens when one of the bent spring connectors fans out in a strange manner - sort of like making a "rounder" spread of the spring or "slanting" to one side. It's hard to explain in words, so there's a picture below.

          But this "rounded/slanted" bent-spring connector possibility (what a mouth full) is actually quite natural and is only a temporary cosmetic adjustment because the connector will still work and can easily be "pinched" back to its original form. To get an idea of what I'm talking about, see the picture to the right. The lower bent-spring connector is slanted.


A SpringCircuits™ Crossover Four-Way Connector Piece with a slanted bent-spring connector - easily fixed with a quick pinch

          Of course, if someone has abused or misused a SpringCircuits™ piece and actually kinked the bent-spring connector in such a way that restoring the original shape is impossible - that's an entirely different story. But normal usage of SpringCircuits™ doesn't cause any bent-spring connectors to kink. And the springs are very resilient (as springs ought to be, right?).

          It might sound quirky, but it could be considered a positive thing (i.e. the ability to re-adjust a connector spring) because the connector is flexible enough to be pinched back from a position into its original shape. Isn't the flexibility of the connector the whole point of making the building of circuits easy? Yeah, I guess it is. Neat.

          The second point of concern doesn't have much to do with any flaw, but it is more about the lack of experience of people when they first start using SpringCircuits™. And that is making sure you place pieces correctly on the loop-fabric board. It's not hard at all, but there the "just slap it down" way and there is the better way - spring connectors mesh together first, then set the piece in place. I went over this earlier when I talked about how the pieces connect.

          Other than that, I'd say the product's quality is pretty solid. Not bad - at first I thought those things might be significant problems, but I surprised myself as I was writing about them. They are not issues much if at all. Thank God! (Should I delete this section or keep it? I'll keep it. Why not?)

Tricked by a Teacher - What A Good Thing.

          There was something about the CSTA 2007 Conference (discussed above) I have to mention - Teachers are tough. There was this one professional that was very slick.

          She tricked me (but her intention was good).

          She asked me a question by diverting my eyes away from the display model (by pointing at something). I looked away and out of the corner of my eye, I noticed she was picking at the corner cap of the loop-fabric board! Was it on securely? I couldn't believe it - do people actually do that?! But I understood she wanted something tough for the classroom.

          She was totally right to do so.

          And I'll be the first to admit that in 2007, the glue used on the corners was not, at that time, "classroom tough." But I've fixed that. I mean I really fixed that so it's next to impossible for the corners to come off. The corner caps are adhered with a super-strong adhesive (sorry, it's a "trade secret").

Durability Revisited

          If I were you, I'd be wondering about the loop-fabric. Is it strong? How long will it last? A very fair question, to say the least. Let me tell you about that. You see, I don't use "local fabric store" loop-fabric. SpringCircuits™ is made with industrial strength loop-fabric. I've been using it for a long time and I don't notice much if any wear. This stuff endures. It cost significantly more, but it's really worth it.


L oop-fabric board with heavy-duty rubber trim and industrial strength loop-fabric

          Add to that, the trim going around the loop-fabric board. It is industrial automobile metal re-enforced rubber trim. It's not the cheapest thing in the world either - but it's definitely doing its job. That trim and the vinyl corner-caps are protecting the board when it gets smacked around inappropriately.

          A bit overkill? You bet.

          Very effective? You know it.

          Let me also say a word about the hook stickers on the bottom of the pieces. Those little guys are rated for at least 5000 times. Let's say you manage to build that many circuits in your life (good luck!), or you just went wild and wore out the hooks just to see if you could - it's no big deal, because these little stickers can be replaced - so there's no problem there.

          You see, I know you have to be comfortable with what I have here for you, and I am not afraid to answer your questions. I want to deliver a top product just like you want to get one.

          Given everything we've been talking about...

Tell Me More About Learning Electronics

          Silly me, like most engineering types, I tend to focus on the cool features of the product, and not the long-term benefits for you. Let me do that right now.

          I love learning about learning. So two books I enjoy are called "An Introduction to Learning and Memory" by John Lutz and "Don't Shoot The Dog" by Karen Pryor. These books taught me about various methods of learning and training.

          One of the simple techniques used in training animals is very similar to reverse-engineering, to me anyway. That technique involves training someone (or some animal) by doing two things: (1) breaking a new understanding or sequence of behaviors into parts, and (2) starting with the last behavior in a sequence. This is such a key insight and precisely why I think starting with working circuits and picking them apart and playing with them in a "reverse engineering" sort of way is the best way to grasp the basic concepts.

          You might be wondering what specifically does "The SpringCircuits™ Electronics Learning System" teach, and what is level of math required in the lessons?

          The SpringCircuits™ system has learning Units/Modules you can learn about here. You'll be happy to note that there are 40 something lessons that involve zero math. This is on purpose, because we want people to grasp concepts without the math first.


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Maybe some announcements about SpringCircuits™,
some tips about learning electronics, a few suggestions,
and perhaps an occasional offer.

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          I do have some more tips about the "how" of learning electronics and you can sign up to receive those in email. They're a work-in-progress. I'll try not to bog down your email inbox. I don't teach the electrical concepts in these tips, just learning principles or guiding thoughts for thinking about electricity/electronics. (okay... an occasional plug for SpringCircuits™ - you got me.)


A SpringCircuits™ Diode Piece

          But this section is about the long term benefits. So let's reflect a little bit on what we might hope for.

          How often is it that there is one experience, event, tool, or toy that is so profound it effects the future direction of people? Specifically, when I was young, I remember seeing a microphone and speaker and the electronics in between those two devices and being amazed.

          In the early 1980s, my father bought a TSR-80 color computer (yeah, back then you had to say it was color or it was assumed to be monochrome). I was a young teenager, and I would spend hours typing in programs into that thing until the late hours of the morning. Man, that thing even used a tape recorder to store the programs!

          I've since gone on to make hundreds of thousands of dollars (where did it go?) writing software as a career (probably millions for those who hired me). The point is - given the right tool and the right motivation at the right time, you can set the direction of the ship and let the wind carry it. Maybe SpringCircuits™ can help you do that.

But why invent SpringCircuits™?

          While I've always like electronics, the truth is I was horrible at it (that's probably why I had pursued software engineering after graduating college). I mean I was really bad at it. I would build circuits that didn't work and wonder "why?" but not understand how to fix them. It was frustrating. But like many things, opportunity is born out of adversity - and I wanted to make the whole process easier - to build, to learn, and to understand.


A SpringCircuits™ Resistor Piece

          And, in a roundabout way, it did become easier because the knowledge I learned writing software. The concepts I learned in designing software was applied to developing the SpringCircuits™ hardware.

          So if you look at a SpringCircuits™ carefully, the pieces are designed modularly to be used to house a variety of individual electrical components while fitting together nicely. This concept comes out of software engineering - "reusable modular design" (and it just happens that each word starts with the corresponding letters in my initials - R.M.D., and my business is conveniently called RMD3™).

          But I digress. The point is this: I was set on a course long before SpringCircuits™ was a reality, and the course I was on shaped the product that eventually became SpringCircuits™. I'm not saying SpringCircuits™ will definitely do something similar for you or your loved one, but I am asking you to think of that as a possibility. Ignite a spark in someone's life or just point them in a positive direction - be it with SpringCircuits™ or some other interest they have.

Did SpringCircuits™ Get A Passing Grade?

          I've laid out a lot of evidence for why I think "The SpringCircuits™ Electronics Learning System" is a pretty good match for people who want to learn about electronics. Now, I want to review what I think a good electronic kit should have and compare it to "The SpringCircuits™ Electronics Learning System." See if you agree with me, and you can help me out by letting me know if anything is missing.

Comparison Chart

Was it found in SpringCircuits™?

A Good (maybe even ideal)
Electronic Kit Should Be...

yes 1. Simple as building blocks
yes 2. Allow writing on working electric circuits
yes 3. Safe - as safe as using standard batteries
yes 4. Easy to build circuits that look like circuits drawn
yes 5. Measurable between at any connection in the circuit (Oh, I didn't talk about that... you'll just have to see what I mean in the second module - if you get it.)
yes 6. Durable for long lasting use now and in the future.
yes 7. Circuit built stays on board and facilitating an upright display of work.
yes 8. Fun and fast for teaching or learning

          We know there are products that meet some of the above criteria, but I leave it to you whether or not SpringCircuits™ meets all the criteria of an ideal electronic kit.

          And I leave it to you to decide if SpringCircuits™ fits your criteria for the right electronic kit. If and when you are ready to make a decision, and...

If you really believe SpringCircuits™ may be a good match for you...

          You might be wondering...

"What are my ordering options?"

          Whether you choose the "Basic Edition" (with no math) or the "Advanced Edition", that's a lot of stuff. This is the electronic kit I wish I had when I was a kid. Consider that, and consider the impact learning electronics through "The SpringCircuits™ Electronics Learning System" can have on the one you are buying it for. I hope you become a "SpringCircuiteer", and I thank you in advance.

If you have any questions email me at:

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As an after thought (and towards the end of the little photoshoot of my boys)...

          I was surprised to find the boys experimenting in ways I didn't even teach them. They started checking out how to test an LED with the multimeter and decided to join the switch to it and test the switch while testing the LED. Pretty creative. And when the big brothers got out of the way, the little ones moved in. Luckily, Dad was there to make sure they didn't mishandle anything. But remember to supervise your youngsters! I only let the youngster do that because I knew what they were doing - you have to be just as knowledgable and vigilant.

          Look how serious the 6 year old got (blue & black stripes)... (He's our first grader in homeschooling, but doing 2rd grade reading, spelling, and 3nd grade math.)

Even the baby (to the left) had to investigate!


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