Chapter 01
What makes a circuit? Power and the blue bits
Snap your first circuit together and discover how power flows from the blue bit to everything else.
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Invention Lab with littleBits
A screen-free first taste of electronics. Colour-coded littleBits modules snap together with magnets, so a circuit either clicks or it does not, and kids learn what power, input and output actually do by building lamps, alarms, fans and finally an invention of their own.
No experience at all
What you'll learn
- What a circuit is and why it needs power
- Read the colour code: power, input, output, wire
- Build a light, a buzzer and a fan
- Add a sensor so it reacts to you
- Invent and name your own gadget
- Show and tell: present your invention
The course journey
What your child will explore
Follow the course from the first idea to the finished project.
- Chapter 02
The colour code: input, output, wire
Crack the colour code: pink bits sense, green bits act, and orange bits connect them together.
- Chapter 03
Light it up: LEDs, buzzers and fans
Light LEDs, sound buzzers and spin fans as you learn what every output bit can do.
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