Ooooh! Science Kits For GROWN UPS!

[Tuckerfan]

Pretty reasonable prices, too, it seems. A sample of some of their offerings:

Edison style phonograph.

With setup in about an hour (according to the box), you can record your own voice on an ordinary plastic cup, for up to 50 seconds, and experience the wonder of Edison.s discovery, first-hand!!

A bar code programmable robot.

A digital robot kit for you to build and program! The robot ‘reads’ light and dark as zeroes and ones and interprets them accordingly, drawing a shape based on the program of light and dark spots. Simply color the slots of your choice on the programming disk using a black marker, then the device reads the pattern and rolls across the page. Very cool!

A robotic crab.

The Gakken “Mechamo Series” of kits are more complex than kits intended for younger hobbyists (though of course with adult supervision, there is no reason a bright youngster can.t put them together!).

There’s a bunch more stuff on the site, all imported from Japan (I swear, those guys have some of the coolest stuff).

[FlyingRat]

Thanks for the site! Those are truly some cool kits-- I saw them in stores when I was in Japan last fall, but didn’t bring any home. The prices at this place are very good.

I have this one, the Tea-Serving Robot. It’s a replica of an Edo-period (1600-1868) original, and was fun to put together. I’m still tinkering with it to get it to work better.

I think I’ll try this one next: Bow-Shooting Boy.