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I took it as a gift for my daughter - she is fond of programming, and I wanted her to be distracted from the computer. Now we sit every evening and assemble the bots together. There are simpler voodoo bots and bots with small diodes - they are more complex. But when we assembled the first one and it started to glow and move - it was an indescribable delight and pleasure from the work done.

Great set comes with alot of stuff for the money. the sodering iron could be better and honestly I'd recommend you get a better one it helps. kind of slow to build makes it hard to keep kids focused. honestly thought I was getting a beginner set but it seems pretty advanced for a younger adult item. if your kid has the attention span needed by all means it's a great time

Robots from PCBs are very original. The yellow robot is very similar to the terminator. I was pleasantly surprised by the high-quality packaging with detailed instructions and a training book. There is a bag with extra details in the box, so you can experiment and create your own robots.

The packaging and all the tools are amazing, however, it took us time to find out how the soldering iron was operating. You shouldn’t unscrew the cap, just simply remove it. Besides, my son really enjoyed the rotary tool.

Got this as a present for my sons 14 birthday, he absolutely loved it!!! Now he even has his own sodering tool that came with the kit :)

The robots are very cute. In the kit, there is good clear instruction with illustrations. However, I liked the guidelines most of all.

I got this for my husband as he always wanted to learn about electronics and he loved the idea to build his own electronics bot.This kit is an amazing educational project. It has all the necessary tools to assemble these little voodoo guys.They are small and really cute!We loved that the kit comes with 2 booklets, and the educational manual explains how a lot of the electronic components work, and the instruction manual has very easy and simple instructions.The way that Geek Club explains it is very easy to understand and they come with instruction videos for each bot, which is a plus.The tools and the parts look well made and they work with no issues.The design of the little bots look amazing.Overall an amazing kit to learn by creating your bots.I recommend it.

This is a good kit to do an intro level electronics kit, and specifically to learn and practice soldering. I had been trying to learn soldering this past year, and had found that many kits are just a few connections (for example, the badges that are popular where you solder and make a badge with a blinking light). And there are limited options for beginner practice kits, then real electronics kits are way too complex. This Geek Club kit had several cute little robots that are challenging but not impossible. I think it's a good level of complexity for soldering practice, but if you are a total beginner then you really are buying practice only and you will be happier if your expectation is to do your best rather than for all robots to come out perfectly.Soldering practice: Yes, this kit is good for soldering practice. I got this because it looked like a soldering kit that I would be able to do. I'm trying to learn soldering, and so far have basically cut up broken electronics and done things like cut the cord off, then cut and solder wire back together, and try unsoldering circuit boards. When I shopped for soldering kits I found two categories. There are beginner soldering kits that are really simple (ie. the badges, like the day of the dead badge where you solder a blinking light onto a pin and that's about it). Those were expensive for what you get - maybe ten dollars for a kit that requires 3 solders. It's not economical to try and learn like that. Then there are super complicated kits where you do a simple electronic like a radio and they aren't really designed to learn soldering but instead are electronics kits not for beginners and you have to solder to do them, but not just solder - solder many small pieces to where the chance of successfully completing is low because it's working with so many teeny tiny pieces in such a tight space. The off brand electronics kits are basically setting yourself up for failure. This Geek Club kit is good because it's bigger parts with a little more space to work, so success is way more likely for a beginner (or even for any hobbyist at all, since the common thing I have heard about soldering is that real life applications are working with such tiny parts that many people do not get to the point of being able to repair things). And each little robot is fairly simple (while even a simple electronics kit not specifically designed for beginners might have a bazillion connections), but still has a bit more substance to it than the wimpy little badge kits where you solder maybe two parts total. I think it's a good kit for beginning soldering. It's pricey, but you get something that's both challenging to where it's building skills and where success is within reach even if you might not succeed on any given robot.The tools: I had put off reviewing this kit for a long time. I got the kit with tools from Geek Club. Then I used my own soldering iron, which is just a cheapy little unit. Then I kept thinking I would go back and use the Geek Club soldering iron, but I never did. The Geek Club soldering iron plugs in with USB, and I just have my one pretty nice laptop right now, and it just weirded me out to plug something that is basically all power draw to make heat into my ports on the laptop. I'm sure nothing would happen, but I just feel strange to do it. And, of course I was lazy to set up a USB phone charger thing to plug it into, which I'm sure is what I was supposed to do.Are the tools worth the extra cost: OK, so the tools are about sixty dollars extra for a Geek Club kit with tools over a Geek Club kit without tools. I think they are a little bit overpriced, but not by as much as you might think. Also, having all the tools included is a way to be set up for success if you are a beginner (this is basically a soldering kit for beginners). That way, you don't get the wrong kind of tool for something, and you know you have everything you need. For tools, you get (I got these with Smart Nano Bots, but I think it's the same set of tools with all the kits with tools): tweezers, file tool, solder wire, USB soldering iron, rotary tool, safety glasses. I think you could get these as separates for a bit less. My feel is that if you don't have any of these already and you were shopping all new, then you likely could get the price down by ten dollars. Which is not a huge savings, and you have to read reviews and then maybe you get the wrong thing and have to stop and go back and get the right thing, so maybe it's not worth it. Plus the safety glasses is something I can never get enough of, so extra of that is welcome. I think the tools are worth it, if you don't already have a basic set of tools. If you already have them, then you know better what you are doing and can price it out. If you feel confused about the decision, I think getting tools is worth it.The company currently has a build video for each robot in this kit. So, you can actually watch those before buying, and it will show you what your goal is to do. That can help in knowing whether the kit is worthwhile. The videos of full builds start to finish of each robot in this kit are in the instructions section of their website, and there's no activation code or anything, so you can watch before you buy and decide if the complexity level is good for you. Each video is almost a speed run of someone with lots of experience and skills doing the kit quick and smooth with no explanation, and each video is around 15 to 20 minutes long. Obviously, when you are not super experienced each one takes longer. A lot longer. And you might now be successful for any given robot, because soldering is tough. The videos will also show the working robot blinking lights, following a light and moving towards it!, and with moving parts and little gimics for each robot.One other thing you can notice from the videos, but it only affects a very few people, is that the little flat batteries that power these are not particularly secured once these little robots are made. Since I have a toddler who likes to chew small things like that and since batteries are super dangerous if swallowed, just something to know. Obviously, this whole kit is for a much older age and like so many other things, it means I have to be careful and keep it away. It doesn't affect many people, but this one is a bit more risky than average electronics stuff if you have a toddler around in the same house as you.If you have sticker shock of Geek Club kits, then a good way to start might be to get a cheap soldering iron (I have been using a fifteen dollar one), some lead free solder for about six dollars, and then get the "Day of the Geek" ubiquitous soldering kit and maybe a couple other badge kits. That is not necessarily a cheaper option and actually it will cost more per little project and the projects will be almost overly simple, but it does get you one kit at a time, as opposed to Geek Club where you get several kits all together. So, if you hate the first one, or second, or third, you can stop cold and be out. Or if you want to do more, then after you have looked for simple soldering kits, you will see the value of the Geek Club set with the Geek Club ones having a little more complexity while still being beginner and a set like this Smart Nano Bots set having critical mass of kits in a set to get good practice.I think this is a good kit for beginning soldering. It's not super duper absolute beginner, but it's simpler than real life electronics with larger parts or more open spaces to get to things than real life electronics and it is designed for beginners. It's expensive, but you get a lot. I got this and did soldering during quarantine. I stopped quarantining, so I'm back to being short on time and busy commuting and working, but I absolutely would get another kit from Geek Club based on how this one was. I feel like this fits a happy medium between the badges kits that are a popular first soldering project but are way too simple and off brand real electronics kits which have tiny parts going into tight places and are certain to fail. This Geek Club kit is about the experience and the practicing soldering, so not necessarily about successfully making all the robots, and if you want that practice and experience, then one of these kits has several small projects each of which is challenging and it's a good way to get practice.