Old, broken
or unused electronics such as: caller-ID box, radios, computers (not monitors),
cd player, calculator, phone, answering machine, electric toys (locomotive,
speak-and-spell, dolls, etc.)
flathead and
Phillips screwdrivers
scissors
needle-nose
pliers
batteries to
power circuits taken out of the toys
wire cutters
journals/pens
safety glasses
Getting
started
Write down and/or
sketch what you think the insides of some of the devices contain.
Go to it - disassemble
the pieces as carefully as possible to preserve the parts for later projects.
Write down what
surprises you about the parts - color, arrangement, size, etc.
See if you
can get any of the parts such as lights and bells to work when taken out of
the whole device, and figure out what the various parts do when the device
is working.
What next
Creation
and invention:
Make a list
of things you could build from these parts
