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so DD2 adored her internal combustion engine. any ideas for Christmas

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MsIngaFewmarbles · 24/10/2012 15:51

DD2 is 9 and wants to be an engineer. She got meccano last Christmas and loved it and recently had the Haynes engine for her birthday. Built it in 2 hours one afternoon Shock She said she wants an iPod touch but tb I think it's just because her sister wants one. Any ideas?

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GrimAndHumourless · 24/10/2012 15:57

A really decent glass triangular prism?

LexiWITCHious · 24/10/2012 15:57

Raspberry Pi

MsIngaFewmarbles · 24/10/2012 17:35

What do you actually do with a raspberry pi?

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silverfrog · 24/10/2012 18:55

there's the seriously advanced lego - architectural series (Big Ben, Brandenburg Gate)?

or the souped up meccano - the spykee robots.

or what about the logiblocs kits?

MsIngaFewmarbles · 24/10/2012 21:41

Thanks I'll look. Not the spykee though, terrible reviews :(

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silverfrog · 24/10/2012 23:02

oh, has it? bugger.

how about a build-your-own-hovercraft?

melodyangel · 24/10/2012 23:11

Raspberry Pi - You can use it as a cheap computer good to learn to programme on. Download scratch on it.

You can use scratch on a PC too.

Lego mindstorm, very expensive though.

silverfrog · 24/10/2012 23:13

any of the teifoc construction sets? see here

UniS · 25/10/2012 23:12

A drawing board, A3 paper, set squares, curves, and nice propelling pencils. Hours of entertainment.

MMMarmite · 25/10/2012 23:16

Lego mindstorms is great.

An electronics kit - one you can do lots of different things with?

MsIngaFewmarbles · 27/10/2012 20:11

Great ideas thanks :) She's not very into computers and prefers to build things but maybe something she can design with on the pc might be a good idea as well as toys she can actually build.

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ArthurShappey · 27/10/2012 21:12

What about a Stirling engine or a gyroscope?

twolittledarlings · 27/10/2012 21:39

What about Hot Wires by John Adam? My 2 dd loves this. It's a kit that you can build like an electronic kit to makes things work. That is an alarm sound, a light bulb light up, a propeller move, and lots more. Comes with an instruction book for loads of experiments.

austenozzy · 27/10/2012 21:46

Have you looked in the Science Museum shop? They have the haynes engine you mention, there might be something in there that is the next step up.

www.sciencemuseumshop.co.uk/

lurcherlover · 27/10/2012 21:58

Airfix model kit?

Fluffyfish · 27/10/2012 22:30

No idea but I hope my daughter grows up wanting to to be an engineer too.

thewhistler · 27/10/2012 22:52

Science museum here and the Washington one brilliant. Make your own radio, electronic experiments, we did hovercraft and robots. Weather station.

To extend the science, chemistry set.

If pushing the boat out, a mahmod (sp?) engine.

OhYouBigBadBeast · 27/10/2012 22:56

Highly recommend these electronics kits. Dd thinks her is brilliant and in fact in remembering this I might get her one for older kids now as hers has lasted her around 3 years.

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ouryve · 09/07/2013 17:05

Do you work for logicblocs or something, wishidoneitbetter? You seem to have been raking up an awful lot of old threads with comments about them.

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