I'm always on the lookout for cool toys that can empower my kids (9, 6 and 2yo) to be creative and break the mold of being just consumers of other's ideas.

I recently came across littleBits while watching a TED video of their creator. I was immediately hooked. It seemed like the perfect blend of simplicity and self-learning that I was looking to get my kids into electronics. So I went ahead and purchased the kit from SparkFun and a bunch of standalone parts ("bits") from the site itself. There are also a bunch of videos and pictures on their site to get a better idea of what they are, as well as multitude YouTube videos.

This weekend I gave them to my kids, and coincidentally, we also travelled to my hometown and they got to share them too with their cousins.

Man, what a blast it was! I decided to approach this "toy" just like one of the iPod/iPad games I buy for them: "How it's used? I've no idea! I just heard it was great, you go figure it out!". And figure it out they did....

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